This book integrates and assesses the vast and rapidly growing literature on strategic
leadership, which is the study of top executives and their effects on organizations. The basic …

We attempt to bring clarity to the concept of strategic leadership and guide its development
by reviewing and synthesizing the existing management literature on how top managers and …

This special issue was developed to extend the boundaries of strategic leadership research,
to help bridge the micro-macro divide regarding theories of strategic leadership, and to bring …

Executive Overview This is the fourth contribution to the Crosstalk series, a collaboration
between The Executive and European Management Journal created to encourage dialogue …

The quality of an organization's top leaders is a critical influence on its overall effectiveness
and continuing adaptability. Yet, little current research examines leadership within the …

The top executive personality literature has grown significantly in recent years. We review
this literature, consider its contributions to leadership research and practice, and discuss …

The book opens with a discussion of why top executives need to be studied, by arguing that
who makes the decisions matters. The authors invoke John Child's now classic formulation …

For the past fifteen years, strategy researchers and consul-tants have been preoccupied by
a quest for techniques and tools that top managers can reliably use to improve their firms' …

Previous empirical studies of top managers tend to draw from either positive agency theory
or strategic leadership theory. This manuscript reviews and critiques these two approaches …

During the last 20 years, the field of strategic leadership has undergone both a rejuvenation
and a metamorphosis. We argue that the essence of strategic leadership involves the …