The Second Edition of The SAGE Handbook of Leadership provides not only an in-depth overview the current field of leadership studies, but also a map into the future debates, innovations and priorities of where the field will move to. Featuring all new chapters from a global community of leading and emerging scholars, each chapter offers a comprehensive, critical overview of an aspect of leadership, a discussion of key debates and research, and a review of the emerging issues in its area.


Featuring an innovative structure divided by prepositions, this brand-new edition moves away from essentializing boundaries, and instead seeks to create synergies between different schools of leadership. A key feature of the second edition, is the attention to sensemaking (exploring the current themes, structures and ideas that comprise each topic) and sensebreaking (disrupting, critiquing and refreshing each topic). Suitable for students and researchers alike, this second edition is a critical site of reference for the study of leadership.


PART 1: Between: Leadership as a Social, Socio-cognitive and Practical Phenomenon


PART 2: About: Exploring the Individual and Interpersonal Facets of Leadership


PART 3: Through: Leadership Seen Through Contemporary Frames


PART 4: Within: Leadership as a Contextually Bound Phenomenon


PART 5: But: A Critical Examination of Leadership