Challenging leadership stereotypes through discourse: power, management and gender

Brings together wide-ranging empirical research that goes behind the scenes of diverse organizations dealing with business, politics, law, media, education, and sports to unravel stereotypes of discursive leadership practices as they unfold in situ.

It includes contributions that explore how leadership discourse is impacted by increasing pressures of 'glocalization' (the need to communicate across cultures and languages), 'mediatization' (leaving ubiquitous digital traces), standardization (with quality management programmes negotiating organizational procedures), mobility (endless fast-paced long distance synchronization) and acceleration (permanent co-adaption and change).