Leadership Bibliography

Readings That Have Impacted on Our Work

Allen, K., & Cherrey, C. (2000). Systemic Leadership: Enriching the Meaning of Our Work. Lanham, MD: University Press of America.

Drath, W. (2001). The Deep Blue Sea: Rethinking the Source of Leadership. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass Publishers.

Drath, W., & Palus, C. (1994). Making Common Sense: Leadership as Meaning Making in a Community of Practice. Greensboro, NC: Center for Creative Leadership.

Fletcher, J.K. (2002). The Paradox of Post Heroic Leadership: Gender, Power and the “New” Organization. Submitted to Organization and Management Theory Division of the Academy of Management, 2002.

Heifetz, R. (1994). Leadership Without Easy Answers. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.

Huxham, C. & Vangen, S. (2000). Leadership in the Shaping and Implementation of Collaboration Agendas: How Things Happen in a (Not Quite) Joined-Up World. Academy of Management Journal, 43(6), 1159-1175.

Meindl, J.R., Ehrlich, S.B. and Dukerich, J.M. (1985). The Romance of Leadership. Administrative Science Quarterly, 30(1), 78-102

Robnett, B. (1996). African-American Women in the Civil rights Movement, 1954-1965: Gender, Leadership, and Micro Mobilization. American Journal of Sociology, 101(6), 1661-1693.

Vanderslice, V. (1988). Separating Leadership from Leaders: An Assessment of the Effect of Leader and Follower Roles in Organizations. Human Relations, 41 (9), 677-696.

Other Interesting Readings about Leadership and Leadership Research

Bryson, J.M., & Crosby, B.C. (1992). Leadership for the Common Good: Tackling Public Problems in a Shared-Power World. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass Publishers.

Conger, J.A., & Hunt, J. G. (1999). Charismatic and Transformational Leadership: Taking Stock of the Present and Future – Special Issue Parts 1 & 2. Leadership Quarterly, 10(2&3), 121-127.

Coles, R. (2000). Lives of Moral Leadership. New York, NY: Random House.

Conger, J.A., & Pearce, C.L. (2003). Shared Leadership: Reframing the Hows and Whys of Leadership. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Conger, J.A., (1989). The Charismatic Leader: Behind the Mystique of Exceptional Leadership. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass Publishers.

Chrislip, D.D., & Larson, C.E. (1994). Collaborative Leadership: How Citizens and Civic Leaders Can Make a Difference. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass Publishers.

Couto, R. (1993). Narrative, Free Space, and Political Leadership in Social Movements. The Journal of Politics, 55(1), 57-79.

Crosby, B.C. (1999). Leadership for Global Citizenship: Building Transnational Community. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Gardner, H. (1995). Leading Minds: An Anatomy of Leadership. New York, NY: Basic Books.

Gronn, P. (1999). Substituting for Leadership: The Neglected Role of the Leadership Couple. Leadership Quarterly, 10(1), 41-62.

Heenan, D.A., & Bennis, W.G. (1999). Co-leaders: The Power of Great Partnerships. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons.

Heifetz, R. & Linsky, M. (2002). Leadership on the Line: Staying Alive through the Dangers of Leading. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press.

Hunt, S. (1984). The Role of Leadership in the Construction of Reality. In B. Kellerman (Ed.), Leadership: Multidisciplinary perspectives. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

Kaczmarski, K. & Cooperrider, David. (1997). Construction Leadership in the Global Relational Age. Organization & Environment, 10(3), 235-258

Luke, J.S. (1998). Catalytic Leadership: Strategies for an Interconnected World. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass Publishers.

Meindl, J. (1995). The Romance of Leadership as a Follower-Centric Theory: A Social Constructionist Approach. Leadership Quarterly, 6(3), 329-341.

Murrell, K. (1997). Emergent Theories of Leadership for the Next Century: Towards Relational Concepts. Organization Development Journal, 15(3), 35-42.

Morris, A., and S. Staggenborg (2004). “Leadership in Social Movements.” In The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements. D. A. Snow, S.A. Soule and H. Friesi. Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishing.

Palus, C.J., & Horth, D.M. (1996). Leading Creatively: The Art of Making Sense. Journal of Aesthetic Education, 30(4), 53-68.

Parks Daloz, L.A. (1996). Common Fire: Lives of Commitment in a Complex World. Boston: Beacon Press.

Pastor, J.C. (1998). The Social Construction of Leadership: A Semantic and Social Network Analysis of Social Representations of Leadership. Ann Arbor, MI: UMI

Sims, H., Jr., & Lorenzi, P. (1992). The New Leadership Paradigm: Social Learning and Cognition in Organizations. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications.

Some Leadership Classics Worth Reading

Bass, B. (1990). Bass & Stogdill’s Handbook of Leadership: Theory, Research, and Managerial Applications. New York, NY: Free Press.

Bryman, A. (1996). Leadership in Organizations. In S. Cleegg, C. Hardy, & W. Nord (Eds.), Handbook of Organization Studies (pp. 276-292). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Burns, J. (1978). Leadership. New York, NY: Harper & Row Publishers.

Kellerman, B. (Ed.). (1984). Leadership: Multidisciplinary Perspectives. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall Inc.

Pfeffer, J. (1977). The Ambiguity of Leadership. Academy of Management Review, 2(1), 104-112.

Rost, J. (1991). Leadership for the Twenty-first Century. New York, NY: Praeger.

Smircich, L., & Morgan, G. (1982). Leadership: The Management of Meaning. Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 18(3), 257-273.

Yukl, G. (1981). Leadership in Organizations. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

Leadership-Related Readings from Other Fields

Collins, P. (1990). Rethinking Black Women’s Activism. In P. Collins (Ed.), Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness and the Politics of Empowerment. London, UK: Routledge.

Kaplan, T. (1997). Crazy for Democracy: Women in Grassroots Movements. New York, NY: Routledge.

Morris, A. and Mueller, C. (Eds.). (1992). Frontiers in Social Movement Theory. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Sacks, K. (1988). Gender and Grassroots Leadership. In A. Bookman, & S. Morgan (Eds.), Women and the Politics of Empowerment (pp. 77-94). Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.

Teske, R., & Tetreault, M. A. (Eds.). (2000). Conscious Acts and the Politics of Social Change: Feminist Approaches to Social Movements, Community and Power. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press.