This chapter reviews the emerging body of literature on critical theories of leadership. It
begins by putting critical approaches to leadership in the context of broader debates about …

This review of the literature on community and distributed leadership marks out the potential
for a more context‐rich understanding of the nature of leadership. We begin by reviewing the …

abstract In this paper we question the one‐sided thesis that contemporary organizations rely
on the mobilization of cognitive capacities. We suggest that severe restrictions on these …

Existing accounts of leadership are underpinned by two dominant approaches: functionalist
studies, which have tried to identify correlations between variables associated with …

Leadership: Limits and Possibilities offers a critical discussion of leadership that draws upon
a wide range of approaches, material and examples to demonstrate the complex and …

'Authentic leadership'is increasingly influential, with its promise to eliminate, and thus
surpass, the weaknesses of previous models of leadership. This article uses object relations …

This paper problematises the ways women's leadership has been understood in relation to
male leadership rather than on its own terms. Focusing specifically on ethical leadership, we …

Leadership has been a hot topic for organisations and societies for some time and has
found its firm place in the curricula of many business and management degrees at …

The authors seek to broaden the focus and orientation of social constructionism in
leadership development. Previous research has predominantly concerned identity …

This article introduces a critical approach to follower/ship studies through exploring the
unarticulated but highly influential implicit academic theory of follower/ship that informs …