This is an introduction to Leadership-as-Practice: Theory and Application. This book develops a new paradigm in the field of leadership studies, referred to as the L-A-P movement. Its essence is its conception of leadership as occurring as a practice rather than residing in the traits or...

Solidarity in team-work situations is important for the success and longevity of teams. This paper studies how helping group members is affected when groups are randomly merged and increase in size. Group mergers put social norms that are prevailing in previously small groups to the test as new...

A collective and collaborative response to an article appearing in Leadership’s “Leading Questions” department is prepared by a team subscribing to the Leadership-as-Practice (L-A-P) approach. The focus is to represent the manner in which L-A-P operates as a leadership theory and in its...

In this provocation, the author attempts to cite the advantages of collective leadership while acknowledging the objections and fears of challengers. Collective leadership is seen as remote because it defies the traditional view of leadership as an individualistic attractive quality that not...

In this review article, the editor of the new Routledge volume, Leadership-as-Practice: Research and Application, describes the foundation, thematic attributes, and critical uniqueness of leadership-as-practice, comparing it to related collective traditions in leadership and contrasting it to...

This research paper explores a relatively unknown field, the notion of backsourcing in the context of innovation. It explores the relationship between the services supplied by IT vendors and the demand of firms in the financial services sector for innovation-driven business solutions to lead...

There is growing acceptance of recruitment advertising as a rich source of information that communications organizational identity and expectations of employees. This article conducts a content analysis of recruitment notices for CEO-level positions which were published in the six most extensive...

Companies that try to address inequality in employment face a paradox. Failing to address disparities regarding protected classes in a company’s workforce can result in legal sanctions; but proactive actions to address and avoid such disparities can also face legal scrutiny and sanctions too....

The practice perspective of leadership de-emphasizes purpose and rather recognizes pre-reflective forms of intentionality carried out in embodied practices that may be subsequently guided by democratic, emancipatory, and reflexive processes. Although leadership-as-practice should be classified...

The field of leadership-as-practice (L-A-P) is beginning to mature as a theory of leadership in direct opposition to standard leadership, which views the individual as the mainstay of leadership experience. Nor does it focus on the dyadic relationship between leaders and followers, which...