Brigid Carroll - After Leadership

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After Leadership

Leadership studies today resembles a bewildering diversity of theories, concepts, constructs and approaches, struggling in huge part for meaning, relevance and impact. As Dennis Tourish so eloquently puts it, much of the literature suffers from unrelenting triviality and sterile preoccupations. Seeking to create a clean break from this current state of leadership studies, After Leadership begins with the premise of a post-apocalyptic world where only fragments of leadership science now remain, echoing Alisdair McIntyres imagining of such a scene as the basis for re-establishing the foundations and focus of moral theory. From these fragments, the authors seek to construct a new leadership studies that challenges much of the established thinking on leadership, exposes its limitations and biases, and, most importantly, seeks to construct the foundations of a more inclusive, participatory, bold, relational and social platform for leadership in the future.

After Leadership thus imagines a brave new world where what leadership is and what we seek from it can be developed anew, rather than remaining bound up in the problematic traditions and preoccupations that characterise leadership studies today.

Offering both full length chapter explorations that explore new ways of understanding and practicing leadership, as well as shorter essays that aim to provoke further reflection on leadership and what we seek of it, After Leadership offers a uniquely critical and creative collection that will inspire students, scholars and leadership educators to reconsider their understanding and practice of leadership.

Brigid Carroll is Associate Professor in the Department of Management and International Business at the University of Auckland Business School, New Zealand.

Josh Firth is a PhD student at the University of Auckland Business School, New Zealand.

Suze Wilson is a Senior Lecturer at Massey University, New Zealand.

Routledge Studies in Leadership Research

1. Executive Team Leadership for the 21st Century

Richard L. Nolan

2. Leadership-as-Practice

Theory and Application

Edited by Joseph A. Raelin

3. Leadership Varieties

The Role of Economic Change and the New Masculinity

Alexander Styhre and Thomas Johansson

4. Responsible Leadership

Realism and Romanticism

Edited by Steve Kempster and Brigid Carroll

5. CSR, Sustainability, and Leadership

Edited by Gabriel Eweje and Ralph J. Bathurst

6. Revitalising Leadership

Putting Theory and Practice into Context

Suze Wilson, Stephen Cummings, Brad Jackson and Sarah Proctor-Thomson

7. Women, Religion and Leadership

Female Saints as Unexpected Leaders

Edited by Barbara Denison

8. Leadership Matters?

Finding Voice, Connection and Meaning in the 21st Century

Edited by Chris Mabey and David Knights

9. Innovation in Environmental Leadership

Critical Perspectives

Edited by Benjamin W. Redekop, Deborah Rigling Gallagher and Rian Satterwhite

10. After Leadership

Edited by Brigid Carroll, Josh Firth and Suze Wilson

After Leadership

Edited by Brigid Carroll, Josh Firth and Suze Wilson

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Carroll, Brigid, editor. | Wilson, Suze, editor. | Firth, Josh.

Title: After leadership / edited by Brigid Carroll, Suze Wilson, and Josh Firth.

Description: New York, NY: Routledge, 2019. | Series: Routledge studies in leadership research | Includes index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018026776 | ISBN 9781138087811 (hardback) | ISBN 9781315110196 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Leadership.

Classification: LCC HD57.7 .A345 2019 | DDC 658.4/092dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018026776

ISBN: 978-1-138-08781-1 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-315-11019-6 (ebk)

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Brigid Carroll is Associate Professor at the University of Auckland Business School. She was drawn into leadership studies through investigating leadership as a possible alternative and emancipatory discourse, identity and practice. Currently, she is interested in leadership in a grassroots and transboundary context.

Peter Case is Professor of Organisation Studies at the University of the West of England and a member of the Bristol Leadership and Change Centre. He also holds a part-time chair in management at James Cook University, North Queensland, Australia. An irresistible offer of employment from Exeter Universitys Centre for Leadership Studies some 15 years ago enticed him into the leadership field and his current interest is in anthropological and linguistic understandings of leadership phenomena. Peter acts as a consultant to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation-funded research centre, Malaria Elimination Initiative, and has extensive experience of running rural development projects in Southeast Asia.

Stewart Clegg is Distinguished Professor at the University of Technology Sydney Business School and Visiting Professor at Nova School of Business, Lisboa, Portugal. His interest in leadership is an extension of his general interest in power relations and the result of having experienced extremes of occasionally good and mostly bad leadership in universities.

Josh Firth is Doctoral Researcher at the University of Auckland Business School. He is intrigued by the complexities of power that lie at the heart of leadership assumptions, and the question of whether or not leadership can and should be redeemed. His current research is an ethnographic exploration of the changing sociomaterial practices of leadership and management in the age of algorithms.

Jackie Ford is Professor of Leadership and Organisation Studies at Durham University Business School. She has long-standing frustrations with much research on leadership, especially the absent recognition of power and identities, and through her research she seeks to unsettle dominant understandings. Current interests include critical feminist, psychosocial and interdisciplinary approaches that recognise specific gender, wider diversity and ethical dimensions, and ways in which leadership research and practice impact on working lives.

Jonathan Gosling is an independent academic who is happily no longer managed. Emeritus at Exeter University and Visiting Professor at IIM-Ahmedabad & Renmin University, he is involved with several ventures aimed at more humane organisations (e.g. coachingourslves.com), the One Planet MBA and is also busy with Organisation Development in health care in Zimbabwe and the United Kingdom. He is interested in leadership where it might contribute to this.