The Routledge companion to leadership / [edited by] John Storey, Jean Hartley, Jean-Louis Denis, Paul 't Hart and David Ulrich

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction / John Storey, Jean Hartley, Jean-Louis Denis, Paul 'T Hart, Dave Ulrich -- Conceptualising leadership -- What is leadership : person, result, position, or process, or all or none of these? / Keith Grint, Owain Smolovik Jones and Clare Holt -- Recognizing and realizing the market value of leadership / Dave Ulrich & Justin Allen -- Beyond the hero-leader : leadership by collectives / Viviane Sergi, Jean-Louis-Denis and Ann Langley -- Understanding leadership in the face of crisis and uncertainty / David E. Rast, III and Michael A. Hogg -- Studying leadership -- Studying leadership : taking meaning, relationality and ideology seriously / Mats Alvesson -- Instead of angels : leaders, leadership and longue dur©♭e / Peter Gronn -- Critical perspectives on leadership studies / Scott Taylor and Jackie Ford -- Psychoanalytic perspectives on leadership / Irma Rybnikova -- Leadership and power / Brigid Carroll and Josh Firth -- Followership in context / Mary Uhl-Bien and Melissa Carsten -- Leadership succession in politics and business / Fredrik Bynander and Paul Hart -- Leadership in interaction / Magnus Larsson -- Practising leadership -- Politics in leadership / Jean Hartley -- Great expectations and great limitations : walking the tightrope of political leadership in the 21st century / Matthew Laing and James Walter -- Co-leadership : contexts, configurations and conditions / Emilie Gibeau, Wendy Reid and Ann Langley -- Leadership on the board: the role of the company secretary / Andrew Kakabadse, Nadeem Khan and Nada Kakabadse -- Practising religious leadership / Jack Barentsen -- Practising clinical leadership / John Storey and Richard Holti -- Contextualising leadership -- How does institution matter? : leadership behaviour in eastern and western europe / Werner Auer-Rizzi and Gerhard Reber -- Consequences of context : political leadership and followership / Barbara Kellerman -- Spirituality, religion and notions of leadership / Sverre Spoelstra -- Leadership, masculinity and ethics in financial services / David Knights -- Global leadership in perspective / Allan Bird, Mark E. Mendenhall, Joyce S. Osland, Gary Oddou and Sebastian Reiche -- Political leadership in the 21st century : neo-liberalism and the rise of the ceo politician / Peter Bloom and Carl Rhodes -- Evaluating leadership -- The anatomy of destructive leadership / Ronald J. Burke -- Evaluating the performance of ethical leadership / Alan Lawton -- Leadership and organizational performance : state of the art and a research agenda / Eva Knies, Christian Jacobsen and Lars Tummers -- Leaders as spiritual heroes : the paradoxes of unlimited leader agency / Dennis Tourish -- Imagining leadership -- Portrayals of leadership in science fiction / Kimberly Yost -- Media portrayals : from leadership cults to celebrity politicians / Maja Simunjak and John Street -- Projecting authority : representations leadership in architecture / Michael Minkenberg -- Nurturing leadership -- Can leadership be taught? / Ann L. Cunliffe and Julie Wilson -- Diverse approaches to leadership development / Jonathan Gosling and Ian Sutherland -- Identity construction and deconstruction in leadership development programmes / Helen Delaney -- Discourse and leader identity / Peter Sun -- Conclusions -- Looking to the future of leadership / John Storey, Jean Hartley, Jean-Louis Denis, Paul 'T Hart, Dave Ulrich

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Leadership has never been more important - and divisive - than it is today. The idea and discourse of the leader remains a critical factor in organizational and societal performance, but there is evident tension between the persistent focus on the critical importance of individual leaders and the increasing emphasis on collective leadership. The Routledge Companion to Leadership provides a survey of the contentious and dynamic discipline of leadership