Prof Gareth Edwards' Outputs (57)

Editorial announcement: Editorial board members and associate editor news (2025)
Journal Article

What makes a good article for leadership? Thoughts and views from our associate editors, part 2 (2025)
Journal Article

Last year we published an editorial that included thoughts and views about what makes a good article for Leadership from three of our associate editors (see Edwards et al., 2024). As this editorial was so well received, we wanted to do the same this... Read More about What makes a good article for leadership? Thoughts and views from our associate editors, part 2.

Sensemaking through crisis: Critical Care Pharmacist (CCP) leadership during COVID-19 (2024)
Journal Article

Purpose - The purpose of this study is to understand how Critical Care Pharmacist’s (CCP) coped during the COVID-19 crisis by investigating what sense-making and leadership processes were evident during the crisis.
Design/Methodology/Approach - Dat... Read More about Sensemaking through crisis: Critical Care Pharmacist (CCP) leadership during COVID-19.

Voices from the village: A multi-voiced relational perspective of character development in leadership learning (2024)
Journal Article

This article builds on previous work that has investigated character development within leadership learning. We take up the analogy of developing character through ‘being in a village’. We do so by gaining unique access to leadership learning within... Read More about Voices from the village: A multi-voiced relational perspective of character development in leadership learning.

What makes a good article for leadership? Thoughts and views from our associate editors, part 1 (2024)
Journal Article

This issue of Leadership marks our first full year as Co-Editors-in-Chief. As we highlighted in our introductory editorial (Edwards and Schedlitzki, 2023) we see our role as striving to develop the community of the journal in its endeavour to be a ke... Read More about What makes a good article for leadership? Thoughts and views from our associate editors, part 1.

Leadership by cavea: The social processes of interorganisational collaborative leadership (2023)
Journal Article

Research on interorganisational collaboration is longstanding however the role leadership plays in such collaborations is often neglected. Using grounded theory, we present a process model of 'leadership by cavea' whereby the relationships across org... Read More about Leadership by cavea: The social processes of interorganisational collaborative leadership.

Collaborative inquiry fuelled by reflexive learning: Changing change (2023)
Journal Article

In this paper, we dig deeper into the reflexive learning that fuels collaborative inquiry by examining the unique ways in which changing itself takes place. We draw on two examples of collaborative inquiry, offering autoethnographic insights from our... Read More about Collaborative inquiry fuelled by reflexive learning: Changing change.

Editorial announcement: New editorial roles and editorial board member (2023)
Journal Article

Editorial announcement: New associate editors and editorial board members (2023)
Journal Article

We are delighted to announce that Prof. Sarah Robinson from Rennes School of Business, France, and Prof. Magnus Larsson from Lund University, Sweden, have agreed to join our group of Associate Editors. Both bring great experience and expertise to our... Read More about Editorial announcement: New associate editors and editorial board members.

Editorial transitions part 2 – Hail and hello (2022)
Journal Article

This issue of Leadership marks a new year and a new volume but also our first issue as Co-Editors-in-Chief. We are absolutely delighted to be working with colleagues in continuing the success of the journal and are indebted to Dennis Tourish for all... Read More about Editorial transitions part 2 – Hail and hello.

Why is collective leadership so elusive? (2022)
Journal Article

This ‘Leading Questions’ thought piece explores the elusive nature of collective leadership. We use our previous experiences to explore issues that tend to go unnoticed and unreported within the academic analysis of collective forms of leadership, in... Read More about Why is collective leadership so elusive?.

Leadership Development Evaluation (LDE): Reflections on a collaboratory approach (2022)
Journal Article

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to report on the experience of attempting a “collaboratory” approach in sharing knowledge about leadership development evaluation (LDE). A collaboratory intertwines “collaboration” and “laboratory” to create inno... Read More about Leadership Development Evaluation (LDE): Reflections on a collaboratory approach.

Exploring the leadership development journey of SME owner-managers (2022)
Journal Article

Purpose: This research aimed to investigate influences on and opinions of leadership development in small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) business owner-managers. Therefore, the objective of this study was to respond to the research question – How... Read More about Exploring the leadership development journey of SME owner-managers.

Putting leadership in its place: Introduction to the special issue (2022)
Journal Article

This special issue emerges from a call for papers issued following the 18th International Studying Leadership Conference, hosted at the University of the West of England in December 2019, which addressed the theme of ‘Putting leadership in its place’... Read More about Putting leadership in its place: Introduction to the special issue.

Studying Leadership: Traditional and Critical Approaches, Third Edition (2021)
Book

Reflections from the field (mountain, cityscape and park): Walking for management development and links to being-in-the world, belonging and ‘Ba’ (2021)
Journal Article

Purpose: The purpose of this paper, based on reflections from practice, is to shed light on the realities of using walking as a tool for learning and development. This is done through an initial analysis of longitudinal reflective data spanning seven... Read More about Reflections from the field (mountain, cityscape and park): Walking for management development and links to being-in-the world, belonging and ‘Ba’.

Problematizing leadership learning facilitation through a trickster archetype: An investigation into power and identity in liminal spaces (2021)
Journal Article

This study uses the archetype of a ‘trickster’ to reflect back on, and hence problematize, the role of the educator/facilitator identity in leadership learning. This is based on the view that a trickster is a permanent resident in liminal spaces and... Read More about Problematizing leadership learning facilitation through a trickster archetype: An investigation into power and identity in liminal spaces.

Where have all the followers gone? (2020)
Journal Article

In this short article, we explore and problematise the axiomatic assumption of follower in the field of leadership studies notably the leader–follower axiom as the essential foundation of much leadership theorising. We do so, firstly by drawing on ou... Read More about Where have all the followers gone?.

Leadership, authenticity and representation in troubled times (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In this paper we draw on insights from political science and leadership studies to explore how dynamics of representation play out within place-based leadership. We focus on a case study of Marvin Rees, the Mayor of Bristol’s response to the topplin... Read More about Leadership, authenticity and representation in troubled times.

Leadership development outcomes research and the need for a time-sensitive approach (2020)
Journal Article

Many leadership development studies consider developing leadership as a dynamic process that takes time. However, few evaluative inquiries examine the effects of time on leadership development outcomes. As the concept of time has begun to receive th... Read More about Leadership development outcomes research and the need for a time-sensitive approach.