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Making a difference: doing leadership research that matters
Leadership research largely ignores the really big issues facing our species, such as climate change, the now rapid growth of new technologies that are already transforming the world of work, and the possibility that an insufficiently reformed banking system will inflict a worse crisis on us than it did in 2008. We also have a proliferation of leadership constructs that often look remarkably like those they are trying to replace. There is much heat but little illumination. The dominant methodologies that the field employs are part of a wider crisis in management studies where many of our claimed results are invalid and/or unreliable, unreproducible and offer little guidance for practice. I conclude that radical changes are needed if we are to play a serious role in improving the world in which we live. Let's take Ken Parry's lead, and make a difference.
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Journal of Management & OrganizationISSN
1833-3672Publisher
Cambridge University PressExternal DOI
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3Volume
25Page range
364-369Department affiliated with
- Management Publications
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This article is published in Special Issue 3 (‘Take your Lead’: In Search of Very Short, Fairly Interesting, and Reasonably Impactful Contributions to the Future of Leadership Studies)Full text available
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2019-02-01First Open Access (FOA) Date
2019-02-01First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
2019-01-31Usage metrics
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