Jackie Ford & Brigid Carroll 
Leadership 
Contemporary Critical Perspectives

Written by a team of international experts and taking a truly global approach,  
Leadership: Contemporary Critical Perspectives is 
the essential guide to key concepts and contemporary concerns in leadership studies.



This third edition has been revised and expanded to improve accessibility to complex theory and add cutting-edge content, including:



• Three new chapters on how leadership shapes the spaces we live and work in, leadership during crisis, and populism and conspiracy theories in leadership

• A range of new case studies focussing on world-renowned leaders such as Greta Thunberg, Mark Zuckerberg and Donald Trump

• An updated ‘Leadership on Screen’ feature that looks at examples of leadership in film and TV, including 
Parasite and 
Peaky Blinders

This comprehensive yet engaging text is suitable for leadership students at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. 



Instructors can visit the companion website to access valuable online resources, including Power Points for each chapter and carefully selected content from the SAGE Business Cases platform.



Brigid Carroll is Professor in the Department of Management and International Business and holds the Fletcher Building Employee Educational Fund Chair in Leadership in the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.


Jackie Ford is Professor of Leadership and Organization Studies at Durham University Business School, UK.


Scott Taylor is an Associate Professor in Leadership and Organization Studies at Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham, UK.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Classical Theories of Leadership

Leadership, Management and Headship: Power, Emotion and Authority in Organizations

Trait Theories of Leaders and Leadership: From Ancient Greece to Twenty-First-Century Neuroscience

Leading Through Contingencies

Transformational Leadership: Secularized Theology?

Leading in Social Context

Leadership Learning and Development

Leadership, Governance and Strategy

Difference and Leadership

Studying Followers

Critical Challenges and New Lenses

Leadership and Process

Relational Leadership

Leadership Without Leaders: Understanding Radically Democratic Organizing Through The Lens of Critical Leadership Studies

Leadership, Poststructuralism And The Performative Turn

Creating And Contesting Space Through Leadership

Emerging Critical Perspectives

An Unconventional History of Leadership Studies

Embodied Leadership, Ethics and its Affects

Constructing Crisis, Constructing Leadership

Populism, Conspiracy Theories and Leadership: A Toxic Triangle In Politics

Über den Autor

Dr. Scott Taylor is Associate Professor of Leadership & Organization Studies at Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham, UK. He has researched and taught at a number of British universities, and visited universities in New Zealand, Australia, India, Sweden, and Saudi Arabia. Scott has published research in a range of peer-reviewed journals and books, focusing on spirituality at work, work/life balance, and gender discrimination. He has served as Associate Editor of Organization, Section Editor for Journal of Business Ethics, and co-chair of the Critical Management Studies Division, Academy of Management. All of Scott’s research is qualitative, interpretive, and sociological, to understand the human experience of work, management, and workplaces. He is currently working with colleagues to prepare the third edition of Leadership: Contemporary critical perspectives (Sage, 2021), a textbook that emphasises the need to approach leadership as complex practice-in-context.