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Making a difference: Opportunities and challenges for critical leadership studies (2024)
Book Chapter
Bolden, R. (2024). Making a difference: Opportunities and challenges for critical leadership studies. In O. Smolović-Jones, S. Wilson, H. Liu, & D. Knights (Eds.), Routledge Critical Companion to Leadership Studies. Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

Critical Leadership Studies (CLS) is founded on the premise that the leader-centrism that characterises traditional approaches to leadership theory, practice and development constrains the ability to work in more inclusive, collaborative and sustaina... Read More about Making a difference: Opportunities and challenges for critical leadership studies.

Reflections from advances in global leadership's Emerald Literati award winners (2023)
Book Chapter
Osland, J. S., Levy, O., Peiperl, M., Huesing, T., Ludema, J. D., Ann Nelson, J., …Miska, C. (2023). Reflections from advances in global leadership's Emerald Literati award winners. In J. S. Osland, B. S. Reiche, M. E. Mendenhall, & M. L. Maznevski (Eds.), Advances in Global Leadership, Volume 15 (181-213). Bingley: Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1535-120320230000015006

The book/journal editors of Emerald Publishing are asked to select the Outstanding Author Contribution in each volume, which is a difficult choice. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the Emerald Literati Awards were handed out in a ceremony at the Academy... Read More about Reflections from advances in global leadership's Emerald Literati award winners.

Paradoxes of leadership (2023)
Book Chapter
Bolden, R. (2023). Paradoxes of leadership. In G. R. Goethals, S. T. Allison, & G. J. Sorenson (Eds.), The SAGE Encyclopedia of Leadership Studies. SAGE Publications

Recognizing the tensions and contradictions within leadership theory and practice is an important starting point for developing more creative and constructive ways of working. The ambiguity, uncertainty and complexity that now permeate all areas of... Read More about Paradoxes of leadership.

Addicted to leadership: From crisis to recovery (2022)
Book Chapter
Hartley, L., & Bolden, R. (2022). Addicted to leadership: From crisis to recovery. In Post-Pandemic Leadership: Exploring solutions to a crisis (112-126). Abingdon: Routledge

This chapter looks at why we default towards toxic types of leadership and compares this behaviour to the drivers behind drug and alcohol addiction. Changing our mental models of leadership, the authors argue, is akin to the process of recovery. They... Read More about Addicted to leadership: From crisis to recovery.

Hybridity in higher education: Implications for leadership and management practice (2020)
Book Chapter
Winter, R., & Bolden, R. (2020). Hybridity in higher education: Implications for leadership and management practice. In C. Rochester, & D. Billis (Eds.), Handbook on Hybrid Organizations (169-185). Edward Elgar Publishing

Our chapter critically explores the nature of hybridity in higher education institutions (HEI) and the implications for leadership practice. We define hybridity as a boundary condition in HEI whereby competing values and diverse institutional logics... Read More about Hybridity in higher education: Implications for leadership and management practice.

Dis-United Kingdom? Leadership at a crossroads (2018)
Book Chapter
Bolden, R., & Witzel, M. (2018). Dis-United Kingdom? Leadership at a crossroads. In S. Western, & E. Garcia (Eds.), Global Leadership Perspectives: Insights and Analysis. London: Sage Publications

This chapter summarises the nature of leadership in the UK, main influences and future trends and challenges.

Ubuntu (2014)
Book Chapter
Bolden, R. (2014). Ubuntu. In D. Coghlan, & M. Brydon-Miller (Eds.), The SAGE Encyclopedia of Action Research. London: SAGE

The concept of Ubuntu is an alternative to individualistic and utilitarian philosophies that tend to dominate in the West. It is a Zulu/Xhosa word, with parallels in many other African languages, which is most directly translated into English as ‘hu... Read More about Ubuntu.

Leadership, management and organisational development (2010)
Book Chapter
Bolden, R. (2010). Leadership, management and organisational development. In J. Gold, R. Thorpe, & A. Mumford (Eds.), Gower Handbook of Leadership and Management Development (117-132). Aldershot: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

In this chapter I suggest that leadership, management and organisational development are all parts of the same process - namely enhancing the capacity of organisations, and the people within them to better achieve their purpose. As such, they are clo... Read More about Leadership, management and organisational development.