The leadership literature is full of stories of heroic self-sacrifice. Sacrificial leadership
behaviour, some scholars conclude, is to be recommended. In this article we follow Keith …

Why do great companies and other organizations fail, sometimes abruptly? Why do admired
leaders fall from their organizational pedestals? Why do young and promising managers …

A popular and recurring assumption across academia and beyond is that commodifi cation
is steadily stretching its tentacles wider and deeper into everyday life and that its continuing …

Gift exchange, and the economy associated with it, is not restricted only to those tribal
cultures where it has mostly been studied, but can also appear as an element of …

Servant leadership is one leadership philosophy, which addresses the concerns of ethics,
customer experience, and employee engagement while creating a unique organizational …

This paper draws on Jean–Luc Marion's notion of non–objective phenomena to discuss the
difficulty of studying leadership. Marion conceptualises non–objective phenomena as …

Popular management books often stress that leadership is not a function: Leaders are
leaders because they have followers, not because of their formal position in an organization …

'All too frequently leadership is depicted as an unequivocal" good". Lemmergaard and
Muhr's excellent collection disabuses us of this misleading view, serving as a timely and …

This thesis seeks to uncover the rich context of meaning embedded in people's experiences
of ethical leadership. To explore ethical leadership through this 'lived experience' …

The conventional literature on leadership and emotions is complex and multifaceted,
focusing on norms and techniques, correct–incorrect and/or desirable–undesirable (see …