Publishing Opportunities in a New Section (Leadership Perspectives) of the Journal of Leadership Studies

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Short Description

The Journal of Leadership Studies (JLS - Wiley) editors will lead an interactive discussion sharing how the journal is providing publishing opportunities for leadership research. The journal has recently added a new section to expand publishing opportunities. The Leadership Perspectives (LP) section was added to offer a venue for innovative articles designed to explore leadership immediacy, theory, and practice. Join JLS editors as they discuss publishing opportunities in the Leadership Perspectives (LP) section as well as the other sections of the journal.

Detailed Abstract

For 11 years the Journal of Leadership Studies has had the privilege to publish scholarly work in three sections of the journal.

Articles published in the feature section are traditional comprehensive scholarly manuscripts. Feature articles can be empirical or theoretical; quantitative, qualitative or mixed methods. The important characteristic is that the articles synthesize theory and research resulting in a comprehensive exploration of a topic.

The symposium section is a forum in which a group of scholars/practitioners are able to have an extended conversation about contemporary or nascent leadership topics. The symposium section has been the defining section of the journal for its 11 years of existence.

The third section, media review, provides an opportunity for leadership scholars to write about leadership as it is found in broadly defined media.

Although these three sections may appear to provide a comprehensive forum in which to support scholarly publishing, during the last several years as the leadership field evolved, it became evident that many manuscripts did not fall neatly into any of the three sections described above. An assessment of these manuscripts led to the development of a fourth section designed to allow scholars/practitioners an opportunity to publish short and focused practical articles. This fourth and new section of the journal is the Leadership Perspectives section.

The Leadership Perspectives section provides a new forum in the journal for innovative peer-reviewed articles on leadership theory and practice tied to immediacy. Leadership has been studied for decades, not necessarily to turn out better leaders but to discover why some leaders succeed and some fail, to determine leadership application and integration, and to place the discipline of leadership as a framework among all disciplines. And to meet the ever-changing nexus of leadership applied to a wide variety of fields, the Leadership Perspectives section is envisioned to publish articles that represent new leadership views grounded in the literature and the four domains of Boyer’s Model of Scholarship.
Leadership Perspectives focuses on the practice of leadership. Articles that will be published in the LP forum should be shorter and more focused than the JLS feature articles. The articles should also impact those who lead no matter where they lead. In contemporary culture, society, and the workforce, people in leadership positions often employ controversial, untried, and profound techniques to shape their subordinates, drive revenue, engage their customer base, and/or influence generations in politics, the economy, business, and the academy. Therefore, more than ever, scholarship is needed that can more expeditiously, yet rigorously, address the immediacy important to practitioners.

Opportunity for Scholars and Practitioners
Scholars/Practitioners who have a best practice that fits within the literature, and speaks to leadership, are encouraged to participate in the roundtable to receive feedback on publishing within the LP section. The approach for the LP section aligns prospective articles to discovery, integration, application, and teaching within Boyer’s Model of Scholarship. Scholars/Practitioners with articles on leadership best practices and viewpoints, how such integrations, applications, and teaching contribute to theory, and how theory supports these practices are especially sought. With a focus on the practitioner, it helps to compartmentalize pieces to communicate important contemporary trends and information relevant to all leadership stakeholders. Present in the formation and foundations of the scholarship of discovery, integration, application, and teaching are the critical substrates of creativity, wonder, and wisdom. The scholarship of discovery is not devoid of these catalysts but informed by them. Their presence permits the formation of bridges, connections, to the other elements of scholarship by way of transforming societal problems and questions to useable knowledge through the use of the scientific method. Moreover, discovery, through the construct of methodological inventions and approaches, develops tools for discerning and encountering what has yet to be fully understood or problems remaining to be solved.

The Leadership Perspectives section welcomes scholarship that imbues a sense of immediacy, speaks to leaders as professionals, or speaks to leadership as it is used in a variety of settings. Join the Leadership Perspectives Editor, other Journal of Leadership Studies section editors, and the journal’s Senior Editor in a discussion about publishing opportunities in the journal and this innovative Leadership Perspectives section.

Participants

• Mark R. Ludorf, Stephen F. Austin State University

• Erik Bean, University of Phoenix