Routledge Studies in Leadership Research
About the Book Series
Routledge are pleased to announce a new research series focusing on leadership. Designed for scholars and researchers within the field, as well as executives and administrators, it will reflect cutting edge international leadership research. Relevant to all aspects of business conduct for individuals and organizations, books in this new series will analyse emerging and critical perspectives on leadership research, and reflect the discipline from organizational and political perspectives as well as those of individual leaders such as CEOs.
Public Sector Leadership: A Human-Centred Approach
1st Edition
By Petri Virtanen, Harri Jalonen, Marika Tammeaid
May 27, 2024
Drawing its origins from the Human Relations movement of the early 20th century and from public leadership orientations emphasising human aspects, human-centred public leadership approaches leadership from a system´s perspective. It explores societal institutions, organisations, and phenomena as an...
Responsible Leadership in Corporate Governance: An Integrative Approach
1st Edition
By Monique Cikaliuk, Ljiljana Erakovic, Brad Jackson, Chris Noonan, Susan Watson
May 27, 2024
Responsibly led boards of directors make it possible for modern companies to survive and prosper under conditions of change. Despite the importance of boards of directors, their activities are often lionised or vilified by shareholders and stakeholders which obscures how boards enact responsible ...
Toxic Leadership: Research and Cases
1st Edition
By Steven M. Walker, Daryl Watkins
May 27, 2024
Toxic Leadership: Research and Cases presents research and cases on toxic leadership that emerged from qualitative research on the followers of toxic leaders. The goal is to help students, researchers, and academics understand how toxic leadership emerges, how leaders can spot toxic leadership ...
Women Business Leaders: Identity, Resistance, and Alternative Forms of Knowledge in Saudi Arabia
1st Edition
By Liela A. Jamjoom
May 27, 2024
Published works on Saudi women in organizational contexts are overwhelmingly reductionist, producing a singular story and a monolithic "Saudi woman." This book aims to counter the master narrative on Saudi women in leadership by offering an intimate reading of the women’s stories and experiences. ...
Adaptive Leadership in a Global Economy: Perspectives for Application and Scholarship
1st Edition
Edited
By Mohammed Raei, Harriette Thurber Rasmussen
September 25, 2023
With the entire world experiencing the global pandemic and its aftermath, VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous) conditions have never been more extreme and the need for adaptive leadership never more urgent. But how is adaptive leadership applied outside Western cultures? How can it be...
Researching Leadership-As-Practice: The Reappearing Act of Leadership
1st Edition
By Vasilisa Takoeva
December 19, 2022
One current challenge of conducting research from the leadership-as-practice perspective is a practical one: how to capture and analyse the elusive practice of leadership within the web of mundane organising processes. Although a number of researchers have attempted to address the issue, there is ...
Digital Supply Chain Leadership: Reshaping Talent and Organizations
1st Edition
By David Kurz, Murugan Anandarajan
August 29, 2022
Strong leadership is necessary to drive the transformational change required to build and apply digital capabilities across organizations. Digital transformation in the supply chain is a leadership problem first and foremost. This book draws out some of the key digital business strategies ...
Leadership, Gender and Ethics: Embodied Reason in Challenging Masculinities
1st Edition
By David Knights
August 29, 2022
This book has a clear concern to offer a distinctive way of studying leadership so that it might be practiced differently. It is distinctive in focusing on contemporary concerns about gender and ethics. More precisely, it examines the masculinity of leadership and how, through an embodied form of ...
Strategic Leadership and Systems Thinking
1st Edition
By Peter DeLisi
August 01, 2022
This book is about a new strategic leader – one who, inspired by General Systems Theory (GST), envisions an organization in which people and groups work together interdependently across organizational divides to reach a shared, rewarding future. GST has dramatically influenced physics, ...
Cognitive Automation and Organizational Psychology: Priming Goals as a New Source of Competitive Advantage
1st Edition
By Alexander D. Stajkovic, Kayla Sergent
March 31, 2021
Jobs that were once well-defined are now multifaceted. New realities have placed a premium on employee cognitive processing to fulfill complex occupational roles. But human conscious cognitive capacity is limited, making it nearly impossible for employees to keep up without being overloaded. ...
Leading in the Age of Innovations: Change of Values and Approaches
1st Edition
By Lenka Theodoulides, Gabriela Kormancová, David Cole
March 31, 2021
Leading in the Age of Innovations centres on the need for a more complex process-relational oriented approach to leadership. The complexity of leadership has grown significantly during the 21st century where the need to adapt to the escalating changes in our society and workplace forms one of the ...
Responsible Leadership: Realism and Romanticism
1st Edition
Edited
By Steve Kempster, Brigid Carroll
March 31, 2021
It is time for the development of a new kind of business leadership. Global needs call for a revision of market capitalism and a move towards moral capitalism; a move "from value to values, from shareholders to stakeholders, and from balance sheets to balanced development" (Kofi Annan). With the ...