Routledge Studies in Leadership Research
About the Book Series
Routledge are pleased to announce a new research series focusing on leadership. Designed for scholars and researchers within the field, as well as executives and administrators, it will reflect cutting edge international leadership research. Relevant to all aspects of business conduct for individuals and organizations, books in this new series will analyse emerging and critical perspectives on leadership research, and reflect the discipline from organizational and political perspectives as well as those of individual leaders such as CEOs.
Relational Leadership and Diverse Workplace Identities: An Interdependent Coupling
1st Edition
By Ngaire Carol Bissett
February 09, 2027
Top-down person-centred leadership approaches have proved incapable of meeting the heightened demand for innovative productive output required to help organisations gain a competitive advantage edge. The post-industrial relational leader model, in contrast, due to its depiction of collective leader...
Adaptive Leadership and Complexity: Theory, Practice, and Future Directions
1st Edition
Edited
By Catherine Althaus, Briony Lipton, Shibaab Rahman, James Rooney, Deborah Blackman
January 15, 2027
Adaptive Leadership and Complexity: Theory, Practice, and Future Directions offers a critical and comprehensive exploration of adaptive leadership as both a scholarly framework and a practical tool for navigating complexity. Structured around four thematic parts—locating adaptive leadership, core ...
Critical Realism and Morphogenetic Leadership: Leading in Complex Public Systems
1st Edition
By Deon Pretorius
December 01, 2026
Critical Realism and Morphogenetic Leadership offers public-sector, NGO and organisational leaders a rigorous yet practical framework for leading in complex, fast-changing systems. Drawing on Critical Realism and Margaret Archer’s morphogenetic approach, the author develops the SIA–T framework (...
Leadership Development in Saudi Arabia: Expanding Capabilities for National Economic Development
1st Edition
By Fahad F.H. Alanazi, Charles Harvey, Tom McGovern, Mairi Maclean
October 16, 2026
Leadership Development in Saudi Arabia offers a comprehensive examination of the role of leadership development in expanding capabilities for national economic development, accelerating realization of the ambitious goals of Vision 2030, the country’s blueprint for socioeconomic transformation. ...
Bounded Leadership Theory: Constraints and Orientations in a Global Perspective
1st Edition
By Andrzej K. Koźmiński, Anna K. Baczyńska, Paweł Korzyński, Ilona Skoczeń
September 23, 2026
Bounded Leadership Theory: Constraints and Orientations in a Global Perspective offers a fresh and realistic account of leadership in a world shaped by uncertainty, complexity, and multiple constraints. Moving beyond heroic, trait-based, and universal models of leadership, the book presents ...
Unethical Leadership and Moral Psychology: Employee Responses to Ethical Breakdowns in Organizations
1st Edition
By Shakil Adnan Malik
July 30, 2026
This book examines how employees respond to unethical leadership, exploring the psychological and behavioral dynamics of silence, resistance, loyalty and whistleblowing. Grounded in original empirical research and moral cleansing theory, this book reveals how individuals protect their moral ...
Developing Financial Leadership in Small-Medium Businesses
1st Edition
By Stewart Barnes, Malcolm Prowle
July 19, 2026
Many small-medium enterprises (SMEs) are very small organisations comprising mainly single-person and micro-businesses but, in the United Kingdom, there are around 250,000 small-medium businesses (SMBs) which are substantial businesses with turnovers of millions or tens of millions of pounds. A key...
Leadership Enrichment and Development: Peer and Self-Mentoring Women in Higher Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Gail Simpson Cahill, Diana C. Direiter, Amy Rutstein-Riley, Stephanie A. Spadorcia
July 19, 2026
This book shares the LEAD (Leadership Enrichment and Development) method, a framework for supporting and facilitating leadership identity development for women in higher education. Guided by feminist group processes and relational learning, the chapters in this volume illustrate the impacts of self...
Subversion, Power and Hierarchy in Organisations and Society: Carnivalesque Leadership
1st Edition
By Jo Trevenna
May 21, 2026
Subversion, Power and Hierarchy in Organisations and Society: Carnivalesque Leadership explores a leadership strategy that dates back centuries but has become so normalised that it can be invisible as a strategy. Extrapolating Mikhail Bakhtin’s ideas on carnival and its potential for ...
Leadership and Organizational Culture in Hybrid Work Organizations: Remote by Design
1st Edition
By Karolina Oleksa-Marewska, Joanna Tokar, Daniel Denison
May 18, 2026
Leadership and Organizational Culture in Hybrid Work Organization provides a comprehensive, evidence-based exploration of the challenges faced by organizations in leading remote and hybrid teams. With the shift toward flexible work arrangements accelerating, this book addresses the pressing need ...
Leadership, Management and AI
1st Edition
By Amanpreet Singh Chopra, Sridhar Manohar
December 31, 2025
This book is about the future of leadership and organisations with the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in the business ecosystem. The book, from the perspective of academic inquiries, suggests that the emergence of AI as a transformative force in business calls for redefining ...
Charismatic Leadership in Organizations: A Critique of Texts
1st Edition
By Iga Lehman
December 26, 2025
History is full of examples of how the skilful use of language is a fundamental aspect of charismatic leadership. Traditionally, this phenomenon has been studied focusing on oratory skills. The book argues that the relationship between a leader and a follower has points of similarity to that which ...