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 …

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 …

In addition to leadership psychology, there is another journey to understand the context of
leadership that takes as its starting point the linguistic turn in the social and the …

Gail Fairhurst's book (2007) on discursive leadership is a highly welcome contribution to the
endeavor of establishing discourse analysis as a substantial approach to management …

The purpose of this chapter is to demonstrate the ways in which scholars who study
organizational discourse within a broadly social constructionist framework have rethought …

Communication is a topic frequently linked to leadership; however, the linkage often is
limited to a view of communication as a tool to be employed by leaders in efforts to achieve …

Much has been written about the nature of leadership communication; however, the linkage
often is limited to a view of communication as a strategic mechanism—or technique—to be …

Leadership is one of the most enduring—and elusive—constructs in the organizational
behavior (OB) literature; as Bass (1990: 3) puts it, leadership is “one of the world's oldest …

Leadership: A Communication Perspective has been at the forefront of university and
college leadership courses for nearly three decades, providing a compelling, authoritative …