From Outside the Laboratory: An Alternative History of Leadership Studies

• In Event: New Directions for Leadership Scholarship in Turbulent Times

Short Description

This paper highlights facts and contextual influences which, it argues, have informed major paradigmatic turns in the leadership studies field. Narratives of “progress” in leadership knowledge dominate, however consideration of the factors addressed here lead this scholar to characterize leadership studies as a politically sensitized project, not an innocent scientific endeavor.

Participant

• Suze Wilson, Massey University