The Routledge Critical Companion to Leadership Studies.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Knights, David.

Contributor:

Liu, Helena.

Smolović-Jones, Owain.

Wilson, Suze.

Series:

Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Marketing Series

Routledge companions in business, management and marketing

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Leadership.

Management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (517 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2024.

Summary:

This book offers a rich and insightful overview of critical leadership studies for students, teachers, researchers and practitioners. It includes chapters from emerging and preeminent scholars who share an interest in directing leadership theorizing, development and practice towards the aims of liberation, justice, and equity.

Contents:

Intro

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

About the Editors

Contributors

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction

Theme 1: Philosophical perspectives on leadership

Theme 2: Processes, practices, and power dynamics in leadership

Theme 3: Diversity and leadership

Theme 4: Leadership education and development

Theme 5: Lessons from the dark side of leadership

Theme 6: Reimagining leadership - and leadership studies

Concluding comments

References

2. What Heidegger can offer critical leadership studies: An ontological approach

Ontological structures

Dasein

Positive solicitude

The-they" and inauthenticity

The-they

Inauthenticity

Authenticity

Concept as method: Hermeneutical phenomenology

Conclusion

Notes

3. Polycentric order

Order emerges out of chaos

Polanyi's core beliefs

Polycentric organization

Three critiques of polycentric order

The influence of the idea of the polycentric order

4. What critical leadership studies can learn from (reading) Plato

Introduction

The Platonic roots of leadership studies

Two Platos

A critical reading of the Republic on leadership

Epistemological doubt in establishing the ideal of leadership

Ideals of leadership and the necessity of violence

Implications for critical leadership studies

Note

5. Leadership and posthuman ethics

Posthumanism and posthuman ethics

Posthuman ethics and leadership

Enunciating from within relations

Listening to that which does not have a voice

Creative conflict within and affirmative dissolving of relations

Querying partiality and enabling curiosity

Concluding thoughts

References.

Theme 2: Process, practice(s) and power dynamics in leadership

6. Leadership, power, and politics

The influence of "influence

Power and politics in organizational studies

Leadership, tactics, and reflexivity

Leadership, strategies, and the long game

Methodological considerations: Multisited and multimodal ethnography

Conclusion: Toward an emancipatory view on leadership politics

7. Collaborative leadership: A processual approach

From philosophy to theory ...

... and then to practice

First illustration - Adopting a relational approach to delivering services

Second illustration - Delivering trauma-informed care

What then is collaborative leadership?

8. The Skein of language that contains us: Narrative holding environments as leadership

Critical theory

The strength of a story

Andrew Cuomo

Jacinda Ardern

Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Vladimir Putin

Discussion and conclusion

9. Critical leadership dialectics

Leadership and power

Dialectics

Performativity

Critical dialectical leadership studies

Power as dialectical struggle

Power as gendered/intersectional

Power as (im)moral, (un)survivable, (un)reflexive, (un)discussable

Concluding discussion

10. The critical edge of studies of leadership in interaction

What is leadership in interaction?

Being critical

Existing studies of leadership in interaction

Studies of roles and particular behaviors

Studies of the establishment of a leader/follower position or identity

Studies of influence and organizing of action

What is the critical edge of studies of leadership in interaction?

11. Community leadership and power

Defining community.

The instrumental aspect

The material and imagined aspects

Toward leadership

Leaders in the community or community as leadership?

Power and community organizing

Community leadership as resistance: Dialectical considerations

Illustration: ACORN and power

Concluding reflections

12. Leaderless leadership in radically decentralized organizations

Various approaches to radical decentralization

On terminology

Narrow approaches

Practitioner approaches

Conceptual approaches

Elements for sustainable RDOs

Governance structure: A social infrastructure of swarming

Leadership: Leaderless social practices

Conclusions

13. Leadership-as-practice: Appreciation, critique, and future directions

The leadership-as-practice approach to studying leadership

The emergence of L-A-P: Historical and intellectual legacies

Empirical applications of the L-A-P approach

Agency, power, and inequalities within leadership practice

Future directions for the development of L-A-P

14. The legitimacy trap for women leaders: Why leadership legitimacy is unstable for women

Legitimacy

Studies of women leaders and the legitimacy trap

Original Studies: Looking through the legitimacy trap

The legitimacy trap for women leaders

Resisting the legitimacy trap

15. Decolonial perspectives of activism and climate justice in Latin America: Resisting, re-centering, and redefining leadership from the margins

Modernity, coloniality, and the global social order

Mainstream leadership and the reproduction of coloniality

Decolonial perspectives of activism and climate justice leadership.

Decentralized organizations and heterarchies of leadership

Discussion: Resisting, re-centering, and re-defining leadership

Resisting dominant leadership

Re-centering subaltern views of leadership

Redefining the field of leadership

16. The art of creative brokering: Leadership in the Chinese punk scene

Background and context

Brief history of the development of a modern music scene in China

The Liumeng and Dakou generations

Punk in China

Placing this leadership within the Chinese context

New forms of leadership

Implications for further research

Micro

Meso

Macro

Potential approach

17. Navigating gender and religion in leadership: Identity construction of women leaders in Islamic contexts

Problematizing religion in women leader identity construction

Traversing religion and gender boundaries

18. From container to concerns: On the criticality of the communicative constitution of leadership development research

CCO and criticality

A critical look at leadership and leadership development studies

From container to concerns: CCO as a critical movement

From container to concern: An illustration

Discussion

19. Bringing intersectionality into critical leadership development and learning

Critical literature on leadership development in organizational contexts

Focus on women without acknowledgment of other diverse identities

Intersectionality and leadership development - A deeper dive

Toward leadership development through an intersectional lens

Conclusions and future directions

20. Mapping the leadership industries: Leadership coaching and leadership assessment

From cultural industries to leadership industries

Leadership coaching and assessment

Leadership coaching

Main product or service

Dominant business models and revenue-generating activities

Size, growth, and dominant players

Customers and market segment

Core logics and assumptions about leadership

The leadership assessments industry

Main product/service

The size, continued growth, and dominant players

Customers/Market

21. Not becoming a leader

Leader becoming - A need for disruption

Desire, identification, and lack

Not becoming a leader

Researching presence, absence, and ruptures

Disrupting and moving forward

22. Teaching leadership critically: A metamodern remix

A meta what?

Navigating the modernist monuments of the mainstream leadership canon

Modernist ruins, critical leadership studies and the post-modern legacy

Post-modern pedagogy, leadership, and the classroom: A cautionary note

A metamodern leadership pedagogy: What, how, and why

What are we learning about leadership? Polylogue, multiple subjectivities, and paradox

How are we learning about leadership? Collaboration, play, and relationships

Why are we learning about leadership? Optimism through interdisciplinarity

23. The gift of populism

The gift

Transactional politics

The potlatch of populism

Welfare state and populism

24. The allure of strongman leaders

Authoritarianism and the strongman.

Strongman leaders, violence, and charisma.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-04-002492-0

1-003-36312-1

1-04-002497-1

9781003363125

OCLC:

1432098082