'Take Your Lead': In Search of Very Short, Fairly Interesting, and Reasonably Impactful Contributions to the Future of Leadership Studies (Editorial)
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Fulop, Liz
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This Special Issue has been created in dedication to the life and career of Professor Ken Parry, the founding editor of the Journal of Management & Organization. Ken maintained an impressively wide array of research interests, but two primary concerns consistently stood out. First, he was concerned with the loss of virtue practices in organisational life which has led to ever-decreasing attention being paid to societal values and the social responsibility of leadership practice and leadership scholarship. Second, and related to this concern, Ken was committed to pushing back against the ‘manufacturing’ world of journal article production as the consequence of the imperceptible growth of the neo-liberal norms of university life. Drawing on Ken Parry’s example, the editors of this Special Issue have invited leadership and management scholars to take Ken’s lead by actively questioning assumptions that many of us take-for-granted; to speak up, and loud, against the ‘scientism’ that dominates the management field, pushing for plausibility, relevance and impact in our work; to pursue quality research through a multiplicity of methods, however unconventional they might be; and to place a high premium on teaching and student supervision. The 12 short and long articles that are featured in the Special Issue respond to Ken Parry’s call by taking their own lead and speaking individually and compellingly to one or more of these critical challenges.
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© 2019 Cambridge University Press. This is the author-manuscript version of this paper. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version.
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Jackson, B; Kempster, S; Fulop, L, 'Take Your Lead': In Search of Very Short, Fairly Interesting, and Reasonably Impactful Contributions to the Future of Leadership Studies (Editorial), Journal of Management & Organization, 2019, 25 (3)