Global Leadership : Research, Practice, and Development

Global leadership is an emerging field that seeks to understand and explain the impact of globalization processes on leadership. This is the first book to review the theoretical, empirical and conceptual literature on this important subject, and to analyze what this body of knowledge means for managers who lead in a global business context.

Accessible to both student and practitioner alike, it explains how changes in the global context have created a demand for a distinctive set of qualities for effective leaders. This volume defines the skill set that global organizations are now looking for, highlighting the need to establish communities across diverse groups of stakeholders and initiate change as key aspects of global leadership. It also presents a critical analysis of the training and development of global leaders of the future.

Global Leadership provides an important overview of a key emerging area within business and management. It is essential reading for students of leadership, organizational theory, strategic management, human resource management, and for anyone working and managing in the global arena.

Mark E.. Mendenhall holds the J. Burton Frierson Chair of Excellence in Business Leadership in the College of Business Administration at the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga.

Dr. Joyce Osland is the Lucas Endowed Professor of Global Leadership at San José State University’s College of Business in San Jose, California (Silicon Valley)

Gary Oddou is a professor of international management and directs the Global Business Management program at California State University, San Marcos.

Allan Bird is the Eiichi Shibusawa-Seigo Arai Professor of Japanese Studies and Director of the International Business Institute at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.

Martha L Maznevski is Lecturer Professor, IMD-International Institute for Management Development at the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia