The SAGE Handbook of Leadership (The Sage Handbooks)

The Second Edition of The SAGE Handbook of Leadership provides not only an in-depth overview the current field of leadership studies, but also a map into the future debates, innovations and priorities of where the field will move to. Featuring all new chapters from a global community of leading and emerging scholars, each chapter offers a comprehensive, critical overview of an aspect of leadership, a discussion of key debates and research, and a review of the emerging issues in its area.

Featuring an innovative structure divided by prepositions, this brand-new edition moves away from essentializing boundaries, and instead seeks to create synergies between different schools of leadership. A key feature of the second edition, is the attention to sensemaking (exploring the current themes, structures and ideas that comprise each topic) and sensebreaking (disrupting, critiquing and refreshing each topic). Suitable for students and researchers alike, this second edition is a critical site of reference for the study of leadership.

PART 1: Between: Leadership as a Social, Socio-cognitive and Practical Phenomenon

PART 2: About: Exploring the Individual and Interpersonal Facets of Leadership

PART 3: Through: Leadership Seen Through Contemporary Frames

PART 4: Within: Leadership as a Contextually Bound Phenomenon

PART 5: But: A Critical Examination of Leadership

Doris Schedlitzki is Professor in Organisational Leadership at London Metropolitan University. Doris' main research focus is on leadership and explores the areas of cultural studies of leadership, discourse and leadership, leadership as identity, psychoanalytic approaches to leadership and the role of national language within cultural leadership studies. Recent publications include articles and Special Issues in Leadership, Scandinavian Journal of Management, Management Learning, International Journal of Management Reviews, Human Relations, International Journal of Management Education, as well as a textbook on Leadership entitled ′Studying Leadership: Traditional and Critical Approaches′ (SAGE) - currently in its second edition - and an edited book on Worldly Leadership (Palgrave).

Magnus Larsson is Associate Professor at the Department of Organization, Copenhagen Business School. His main research focus is leadership and leadership development, particularly from organizational and interactional perspectives. Recent publications include articles and Special Issues in Leadership, Human Relations, Management Learning, International Journal of Business Communication, Journal of Management Development, as well as textbook chapters and a chapter on 'Leadership in interaction' in the Routledge Companion to Leadership.

Brigid Carroll is a Professor in the Department of Management and International Business and holds the Fletcher Building Employee Educational Fund Chair in Leadership at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. She teaches broadly in the area of leadership, organizational theory and qualitative research methods at undergraduate, postgraduate and executive level and does extensive cross sector leadership development work with corporate, community, professional, and youth organisations. Ongoing research themes revolve around identity work, power, responsibility and resistance, leadership development, distributed and collective leadership, cross system governance and discursive/ narrative approaches. Ultimately Brigid is interested in leadership as a discourse, identity, and practice and in exploring how it is constructed and shaped between people, spaces, and artefacts in different organisational contexts. She has published in Organization Studies, Human Relations, AMLE, Management Learning and Leadership and has co-edited three books on Leadership.