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View article: Situating and progressing resistance leadership research
Situating and progressing resistance leadership research Open
Resistance leadership is a vital concept that gets to the heart of the power dynamics of organizations and societies. This interview, conducted by one of the special issue editors, Owain Smolović Jones, with two key figures in critical lea…
View article: Spacing Leadership with Greta Thunberg: A materializing ‘story-so-far’
Spacing Leadership with Greta Thunberg: A materializing ‘story-so-far’ Open
How should we interpret the figure of Greta Thunberg and the leadership constituted through and around her? This question drives an inquiry that enhances knowledge of the materializing of leadership through a spatial analysis rooted concep…
View article: The Routledge Critical Companion to Leadership Studies
The Routledge Critical Companion to Leadership Studies Open
The Routledge Critical Companion to Leadership Studies offers a rich and insightful overview of critical leadership studies for students, teachers, researchers, and practitioners. The volume draws together 35 chapters from 56 authors who r…
View article: What makes a good article for <i>leadership?</i> Thoughts and views from our associate editors, part 1
What makes a good article for <i>leadership?</i> Thoughts and views from our associate editors, part 1 Open
This issue of Leadership marks our first full year as Co-Editors-in-Chief. As we highlighted in our introductory editorial (Edwards and Schedlitzki, 2023) we see our role as striving to develop the community of the journal in its endeavour…
View article: Patriotism as a conduit to employee environmental engagement in a post‐Soviet economy in transition
Patriotism as a conduit to employee environmental engagement in a post‐Soviet economy in transition Open
This paper investigates the way in which first‐line managers in Belarusian chemical companies used environmental framings of the notion of homeland and linked these to Soviet‐legacy organisational practices in order to encourage members of…
View article: Developing voluntary sector leadership through open educational resources: a practice perspective
Developing voluntary sector leadership through open educational resources: a practice perspective Open
This practice paper reflects on the experience of delivering leadership development for the voluntary sector through open-access online learning. We outline key elements of learning design and explore the potential and challenges of wideni…
View article: From ‘Pretty’ to ‘Pretty Powerful’: The communicatively constituted power of facial beauty’s performativity
From ‘Pretty’ to ‘Pretty Powerful’: The communicatively constituted power of facial beauty’s performativity Open
The face is a significant locus of power upon which judgements concerning a person’s status, worth and attractiveness are made. This study contributes to knowledge of facial norms’ shifting performative power in daily organizing, theorizin…
View article: Exposing and re-placing leadership through workers inquiry
Exposing and re-placing leadership through workers inquiry Open
The literature on leadership place and space offers us an understanding of how the built environment, geography of location and socio-economic forces can coalesce to shape (and be shaped) by leadership practices. Missing thus far, however,…
View article: Dissensual Leadership: Rethinking democratic leadership with Jacques Rancière
Dissensual Leadership: Rethinking democratic leadership with Jacques Rancière Open
The democratic leadership literature emphasises those leadership practices that involve dialogue and communication within the frame of reference of existing organizational structures, discourses and hierarchies. Our contribution is to prob…
View article: Men Researching Women’s Experiences of Sexism and Discrimination
Men Researching Women’s Experiences of Sexism and Discrimination Open
This chapter explores the tensions and contradictions in men researching women’s experiences of diversity initiatives. We analyze the challenges encountered during data collection, analysis, and presenting/publishing, in a qualitative, fem…
View article: ‘I Wanted More Women in, but . . .’: Oblique Resistance to Gender Equality Initiatives
‘I Wanted More Women in, but . . .’: Oblique Resistance to Gender Equality Initiatives Open
Despite many interventions designed to change the gender demographics of positional leadership roles in organizations and professions, women continue to be under-represented in most arenas. Here we explore gender equality (GE) intervention…
View article: Theorizing gender desegregation as political work: The case of the Welsh Labour Party
Theorizing gender desegregation as political work: The case of the Welsh Labour Party Open
Organization studies offers a detailed understanding of the roots of gender segregation and the obstacles to its dismantling in practice but has not proposed a conceptual framework that can help us understand how radical forms of desegrega…
View article: Theorizing dramaturgical resistance leadership from the leadership campaigns of Jeremy Corbyn
Theorizing dramaturgical resistance leadership from the leadership campaigns of Jeremy Corbyn Open
What are the practices through which resistance leadership transitions from marginality to power? We present a framework of dramaturgical resistance leadership, paying particular attention to the relational dynamics between leaders, intern…
View article: Understanding sovereign leadership as a response to terrorism: A post-foundational analysis
Understanding sovereign leadership as a response to terrorism: A post-foundational analysis Open
This study seeks to better understand how notions of sovereign power as a response to terrorism are built and bolstered through use of the signifier ‘leadership’. Through a post-foundational analysis of the speeches, press conferences and …
View article: Being more with less: Exploring the flexible political leadership identities of government ministers
Being more with less: Exploring the flexible political leadership identities of government ministers Open
The paper focuses on the identity work of government ministers, exploring how they experience themselves in relation to contemporary demands and discourses of leadership and democracy. We note a substantial number of studies seeking to dev…
View article: Mapping the aesthetics of leadership development through participant perspectives
Mapping the aesthetics of leadership development through participant perspectives Open
This enquiry sets out to explore leadership development as an intrinsically aesthetic experience, drawing on the reflexivity of participants from four intensive, long-term leadership development experiences to claim that the very architect…
View article: ‘No More Heroes’: Critical Perspectives on Leadership Romanticism
‘No More Heroes’: Critical Perspectives on Leadership Romanticism Open
This paper revisits Meindl et al’s (1985) ‘romance of leadership’ thesis and extends these ideas in a number of inter-related ways. First, it argues that the thesis has sometimes been neglected and/or misinterpreted in subsequent studies. …
View article: What Is Leadership: Person, Result, Position or Process, or All or None of These?
What Is Leadership: Person, Result, Position or Process, or All or None of These? Open
Research into leadership - at least in written form - can be traced back to Plato in the West and Sun Tzu in the East, but we do not seem to be any nearer a consensus as to its basic meaning, let alone whether it can be taught or its moral…
View article: Honouring the code? Exploring the ambiguities and antagonisms of ethical identities
Honouring the code? Exploring the ambiguities and antagonisms of ethical identities Open
This is a paper concerned with empirically exploring how employees make sense of their ethical and professional identities within a shifting order of discursive norms. We posit the code of ethics (CoE) as a valuable object of study that ho…
View article: Putting the discourse to work: On outlining a praxis of democratic leadership development
Putting the discourse to work: On outlining a praxis of democratic leadership development Open
This article offers a praxis of democratic leadership development, arguing that the framework presented can act as a means of rethinking how collective forms of leadership are developed within and between organisations. Building on notions…