The Routledge Critical Companion to Leadership Studies

This book offers a rich and insightful overview of critical leadership studies for students, teachers, researchers and practitioners. It includes chapters from emerging and preeminent scholars who share an interest in directing leadership theorizing, development and practice towards the aims of liberation, justice, and equity.

David Knights is Professor Emeritus, at Lancaster University where he was a Distinguished Professor until Nov 2020. He has held professorships in 9 universities in the UK and internationally Visiting Professorships in Dublin, Gothenburg, Macquarie, Melbourne, Sydney, Stockholm, and Tampa.

Helena Liu is an Associate Professor of Management at Bond Business School, located on the unceded lands of the Kombumerri people of the Yugambeh language region. Her research interrogates the gender, race, and class dynamics that underpin our enduring romance with leadership.

Owain Smolovic Jones is a Professor of Organizational Studies at Durham University. His research focuses on power and resistance in practices of leadership, particularly concerning salient social and global issues, such as climate change, equalities, and housing.

Suze Wilson is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Management at Massey University in Aotearoa New Zealand. Her research interests pertain to issues of power, identity, gender, ethics, discourse, practice/s, context, character, communication, and crisis with regard to leadership and its development, as well as the history of leadership thought.