Beneath the verbosity of modern leadership theories, there is a simple truth: Leading people
is essentially about communication. The respective communicative philosophies underlying …

This chapter reviews the history of leadership communication research from transmissional
views of communication to post-truth. We adopt a meta-theoretical lens to analyze this wide …

We have made great strides in leadership communication research and practice. We need
only look to International Journal of Business Communication's history to realize this …

This paper reviews the literature on communication in organizations most relevant to the
study of leadership. Although leadership communication research has a history of significant …

Effective communication is a foundational leadership skill. Many leadership theories
implicitly assume communication skills, without investigating them behaviorally. To be able …

This is the first report from the research project “Communicative Leadership–
Conceptualization, Analysis and Development of Core Competence” at Mid Sweden …

Without question, the study of leadership has a long and rich history within the
organizational sciences despite varying attitudes toward the topic. 1 For example …

Communication is not simply a medium through which leadership happens to be exercised;
it is part of its substance. Leaders must communicate—and be seen to communicate—in …

Leadership is a concept defined in many different ways in the literature. Here it is defined as
a process whereby an individual influences other individuals to act to fulfill a common goal …

One of the most important things leaders do is communicate. Though research on leaders'
communication has been active for half a century, to date there has been little effort to review …