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.
Women's Leadership Development: Caring Environments and Paths to Transformation
1st Edition
By Gelaye Debebe
March 31, 2021
Readers come to the topic of leadership development with multiple interests—intellectual, professional, and personal—and with curiosity about how to apply concepts and tools to themselves and to support others. Women’s Leadership Development: Caring Environments and Paths to Transformation ...
After Leadership
1st Edition
Edited
By Brigid Carroll, Josh Firth, Suze Wilson
December 18, 2020
Leadership studies today resembles a bewildering diversity of theories, concepts, constructs and approaches, struggling in huge part for meaning, relevance and impact. As Dennis Tourish so eloquently puts it, much of the literature suffers from ‘unrelenting triviality’ and ‘sterile preoccupations’....
Creative Leadership: Contexts and Prospects
1st Edition
Edited
By Charalampos Mainemelis, Olga Epitropaki, Ronit Kark
December 18, 2020
There has never been a better time to study, practice, and experience creative leadership. In the fluid and turbulent economic and social environments of the 21st century, creative leadership has become a cardinal force in the creation and evolution of adaptive organizations. In the last two ...
Theoretical Perspectives of Strategic Followership
1st Edition
By David Zoogah
December 18, 2020
The concept of followership, like leadership, is not new to the extent that it has been around since the beginning of creation. It is so pervasive in human interactions that attempts to study it are often met with ridicule. In the organization literature, followership, a complementary role to ...
Good Dividends: Responsible Leadership of Business Purpose
1st Edition
Edited
By Steve Kempster, Thomas Maak, Ken Parry
February 25, 2020
This book seeks to answer the question of ‘leadership for what?’. We shall outline an answer by focusing on responsible leadership of purpose through an inter-disciplinary perspective. Responsible leadership moves the axis of leadership from leader-followers to leader-stakeholders; away from ...
Revitalising Leadership: Putting Theory and Practice into Context
1st Edition
By Suze Wilson, Stephen Cummings, Brad Jackson, Sarah Proctor-Thomson
December 06, 2019
Revitalising leadership connects leadership theory and practice with context. It argues that the universal prescriptions favoured by most leadership scholars ignore the reality that context always matters in leadership practice – and so it should matter in leadership theorizing too. Addressing this...
Women, Religion and Leadership: Female Saints as Unexpected Leaders
1st Edition
Edited
By Barbara Denison
December 05, 2019
Women, Religion and Leadership focuses on women from the traditional context of women as leaders with chapters observing various aspects of leadership from specifically chosen religious female leaders and going on to examine the legacies they leave behind. This book seeks to identify and analyse ...
Critical Perspectives on Leadership: The Language of Corporate Power
1st Edition
By Mark Learmonth, Kevin Morrell
May 09, 2019
Within contemporary culture, ‘leadership’ is seen in ways that appeal to celebrated societal values and norms. As a result, it is becoming difficult to use the language of leadership without at the same time assuming its essentially positive, intrinsically affirmative nature. Within organizations, ...
Innovation in Environmental Leadership: Critical Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Benjamin W. Redekop, Deborah Rigling Gallagher, Rian Satterwhite
March 28, 2019
Innovation in Environmental Leadership offers innovative approaches to leadership from a post-industrial and ecological vantage point. Chapters in this collection are written by leading scholars and practitioners of environmental leadership from around the globe, and are informed by a variety of ...
Leadership Matters: Finding Voice, Connection and Meaning in the 21st Century
1st Edition
Edited
By Chris Mabey, David Knights
September 27, 2018
In recent years we have seen what could be described as a moral meltdown in the corporate corridors of power. Few sectors have escaped high profile scandals, with public officials and leaders guilty of malpractice, duplicity, fraud and corporate malfeasance. Conventional leadership theories appear ...
Executive Team Leadership in the Global Economic and Competitive Environment
1st Edition
By Richard L. Nolan
June 08, 2018
Corporations have continued to grow and extend their operations into the global economy to the point that the modern corporation has become larger and more influential than many sovereign countries. In this global expansion, corporations have extended their operations with little restraint—almost ...
Leadership Varieties: The Role of Economic Change and the New Masculinity
1st Edition
By Alexander Styhre, Thomas Johansson
June 08, 2018
In all periods of time, there is a perceived shortage of qualified, credible, and robust leadership skills. At the same time, what is regarded as skilled leadership is contingent on economic, political, institutional, and cultural conditions specific for a period of time or a local setting. ...