Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice

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ADVANCING LEADERSHIP THEORY AND PRACTICE

Nitin Nohria and Rakesh Khurana

THIS EDITED volume has one primary purpose—to stimulate serious scholarly research on leadership. At a time when societies around the world are crying out for more and better leadership, when our current leaders (especially in business, but also in government and other spheres of public life) have lost legitimacy, questions are being asked, sometimes angrily, of the institutions that school these leaders: What kinds of leaders are these institutions developing that have caused so much hardship for so many? Are these institutions developing leaders who have the competence and character necessary to lead the web of complex institutions that have become so vital to the ...