Global Leadership: Portraits of the Past, Visions for the Future
A Volume in the ILA Building Leadership Bridges (BLB) Series

Call for Submissions (Deadline May 1, 2008)

Michael Harvey and JoAnn Barbour, Editors

The International Leadership Association invites you to submit your work for Global Leadership: Portraits of the Past, Visions for the Future, a volume in the Building Leadership Bridges series. BLB captures the best contemporary thinking about leadership today from a diverse range of scholars, practitioners, and educators working in the field of leadership studies. In keeping with the mission of the ILA, BLB connects ways of studying, imagining, and experiencing leadership across cultures, over time, and around the world.

The 2008 theme is Global Leadership: Portraits of the Past, Visions for the Future. Is there indeed an ideal of “global leadership” that links local leadership efforts? What are the key cultural, historical, moral, and organizational contexts in which leadership—and related concepts like followership—occur? What lessons can the past provide for today’s leadership challenges? When we speak of “visions for the future,” whose visions do we mean? What role do leaders play in shaping visions, or translating them into action and outcome? Looking farther ahead, can we say anything about the future of leadership in an increasingly complex world?

Global Leadership: Portraits of the Past, Visions for the Future welcomes previously unpublished submissions that explore these aspects of leadership from diverse perspectives, disciplines, cultures and sectors. Submissions are encouraged that strengthen ties between those who practice and those who study leadership, and that foster effective and ethical leadership. We welcome scholars’ explorations of the changing field of leadership and we also welcome practitioners’ reflections, stories, and “reports from the field” that help us understand leadership at the intersections of theory and practice.

Submission Guidelines

Submitted articles should be no longer than 5000 words. Identifying information (names, affiliations, and contact information of all authors) should be on a separate cover sheet. APA style should be followed. Notes should be kept to a minimum but when used should come in the form of endnotes. Send electronically to Shelly Wilsey at swilsey@ila-net.org by May 1, 2008. Please note: The submission and review process of BLB is not linked to the ILA annual conference; you may choose to respond to one or both Calls.

Deadline: May 1, 2008

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