Purpose The purpose of this paper is to advance contemporary cognisance of the
leadership field and its current state, through the synthesis and development of earlier …

Purpose The concept of “communicative leadership” is used in organisations that analyse
and develop leaders' communication competence. A scholarly definition of this concept is …

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 …

Communication as Organizing unites multiple reflections on the role of language under a
single rubric: the organizing role of communication. Stemming from Jim Taylor's earlier work …

This article critically examines excessive positivity in leadership dynamics. It argues that the
tendency for leader positivity to become excessive is a recurrent but under-researched …

Why are some political leaders stronger than others? How do we make sense of the
interaction between the leader's personality and the context that the leader faces? This book …

Aims This discursive paper draws on three key leadership theories with the aim of outlining
how styles of leadership impact the provision of fundamentals of care. Design Discussion …

This article focuses on exerting influence in leadership, namely manipulation in storytelling.
Manipulation is usually considered an unethical approach to leadership. We will argue that …

This paper critically reviews existing contributions from the field of cultural leadership studies
with a view to highlighting the conceptual and methodological limitations of the dominant …

This work provides an exceptional case study, shedding light onto the functioning of an
actual corporate board of directors. It presents analysis of a series of corporate management …