Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-382) and index.

List of Case Studies
List of Editors and Contributors
Guided Tour of the Book
Online Resources
Introduction: The Powers of Leaders
PART I CLASSICAL THEORIES OF LEADERSHIP
1 Leadership, Management and Headship: Power, Emotion and Authority in Organizations
2 Trait Theories of Leaders and Leadership: From Ancient Greece to Twenty-first-century Neuroscience
3 Leading through Contingencies
4 Transformational Leadership: Secularized Theology?
Integrative Case 1: Pregnancy, Not Incapacitation: Headship, Contingency, Traits and Charisma in New Zealand Political Leadership
PART II LEADING IN SOCIAL CONTEXT
5 Leadership Learning and Development
6 Leadership, Governance and Strategy
7 Difference and Leadership
8 Studying Followers
Integrative Case 2: Is #MeToo Leadership?
PART III CRITICAL CHALLENGES AND NEW LENSES
9 Leadership and Process
10 Relational Leadership
11 Leadership without Leaders: Understanding Radically Democratic Organizing through the Lens of Critical Leadership Studies
12 Leadership, Poststructuralism and the Performative Turn
13 Creating and Contesting Space through Leadership
Integrative Case 3: Is Collective Leadership Achievable in Organizations?
PART IV EMERGING CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES
14 An Unconventional History of Leadership Studies
15 Embodied Leadership, Ethics and its Affects
16 Constructing Crisis, Constructing Leadership
17 Populism, Conspiracy Theories and Leadership: A Toxic Triangle in Politics
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Index

Leadership
Contemporary Critical Perspectives
Written by a team of international experts and taking a truly global approach, Leadership: Contemporary Critical Perspectives is the essential guide to key concepts and contemporary concerns in leadership studies. This third edition has been revised and expanded to improve accessibility to complex theory and add cutting-edge content, including: • Three new chapters on how leadership shapes the spaces we live and work in, leadership during crisis, and populism and conspiracy theories in leadership • A range of new case studies focussing on world-renowned leaders such as Greta Thunberg, Mark Zuckerberg and Donald Trump • An updated ‘Leadership on Screen’ feature that looks at examples of leadership in film and TV, including Parasite and Peaky Blinders This comprehensive yet engaging text is suitable for leadership students at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. Instructors can visit the companion website to access valuable online resources, including PowerPoints for each chapter and carefully selected content from the SAGE Business Cases platform. Brigid Carroll is Professor in the Department of Management and International Business and holds the Fletcher Building Employee Educational Fund Chair in Leadership in the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Jackie Ford is Professor of Leadership and Organization Studies at Durham University Business School, UK. Scott Taylor is an Associate Professor in Leadership and Organization Studies at Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham, UK.