{"title":"Correction to “Bridging the Divide between Scholarly and Popular Leadership Writing”","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/jls.70042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jls.70042","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Hartman, N. S., & Conklin, T. A. (2026). Bridging the divide between scholarly and popular leadership writing. <i>Journal of Leadership Studies</i>, 19(4), e70028. https://doi.org/10.1002/jls.70028</p><p>In the article referenced above, the order of authorship was incorrect. The correct order of authors is:</p><p>Thomas A. Conklin, Nathan S. Hartman</p><p>The online version of the article has also been corrected.</p><p>We apologize for this error.</p>","PeriodicalId":45503,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Leadership Studies","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jls.70042","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147615286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Correction to “Bridging the Divide between Scholarly and Popular Leadership Writing”","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/jls.70042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jls.70042","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Hartman, N. S., & Conklin, T. A. (2026). Bridging the divide between scholarly and popular leadership writing. <i>Journal of Leadership Studies</i>, 19(4), e70028. https://doi.org/10.1002/jls.70028</p><p>In the article referenced above, the order of authorship was incorrect. The correct order of authors is:</p><p>Thomas A. Conklin, Nathan S. Hartman</p><p>The online version of the article has also been corrected.</p><p>We apologize for this error.</p>","PeriodicalId":45503,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Leadership Studies","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jls.70042","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147615284","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: The Theory of Being: Practices for Transforming Self and Communities Across Difference","authors":"Mavis Gyesi","doi":"10.1002/jls.70038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jls.70038","url":null,"abstract":"<p><i>The Theory of Being: Practices for Transforming Self and Communities Across Difference</i> is a book based on a 20-year research study conducted by the Being Research Collaborative team, which researches process-oriented approaches for disrupting dehumanizing practices in organizations, helping communities to thrive. The theory teaches ways to be with <i>Differences</i> and offers liberating strategies for engaging in constructive dialogue. Skillfully integrate existing literature, research, and reflections to take readers on a profound journey that centers on difficult dialogues among individuals with diverse perspectives. The book's primary audience is intended for higher education professionals, staff, business leaders, managers, and undergraduate and graduate students. The current book, with its emphasis on dialogue, signifies a commitment to actionable practices that have the potential to benefit organizations and educational institutions across the United States and worldwide. The current review begins with a summary of the book, outlining its contributions to higher education and highlighting its limitations.</p>","PeriodicalId":45503,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Leadership Studies","volume":"19 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146224400","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Beyond the Bestseller List: A Conceptual Framework for Evaluating Scholarly Rigor in Popular Leadership Books","authors":"Marlon Deon Henderson","doi":"10.1002/jls.70030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jls.70030","url":null,"abstract":"<p>As popular leadership books gain significant influence across organizations, educators and policymakers, their credibility and scholarly rigor often remain unexamined. This paper argues that scholars have a duty to evaluate such texts critically rather than dismiss them outright and to illuminate their contributions and limitations using transparent standards. A conceptual framework is proposed for assessing scholarly quality across four dimensions: evidence base, citation practices, conceptual coherence, and methodological transparency. Drawing on knowledge translation and publishing theory, this paper introduces the Reach–Rigor Matrix, a typology classifying leadership books as Exemplars, Influential Heuristics, Scholarly Marginalia, or Pop Advice. The model challenges the notion that rigor and popularity are mutually exclusive and offers theoretical propositions to explain when they align or diverge. This paper outlines a research agenda, including audits, bibliometric mapping, and perception experiments, to guide future inquiries. By providing a shared vocabulary and evaluative lens, this study encourages scholars, editors, and leadership educators to engage critically and constructively with leadership works shaping public discourse.</p>","PeriodicalId":45503,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Leadership Studies","volume":"19 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146199377","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Writing as Testimony: Psychoanalysis, Complexity, and the Ethics of Scholarly Voice","authors":"Anderson de Souza Sant’Anna","doi":"10.1002/jls.70034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jls.70034","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article interrogates the role of academic writing in organizational leadership research through a psychoanalytic lens, proposing “writing as testimony” as a transformative approach. Traditional academic writing often strives for objectivity and detachment, but this paper argues for the inclusion of emotional and subjective elements that reflect the researcher's active role in knowledge creation. Drawing on psychoanalytic theory, complexity theory, and critical social theory, the study challenges the notion of scholarly writing as neutral and advocates for an epistemology of authorship grounded in transference, affectivity, and uncertainty. The author contends that writing, when approached as a form of testimony, becomes a medium for ethical engagement with leadership practice, allowing scholars to embody the complexities of organizational life. This approach opens up a dialogical space where the scholar is both a participant and a witness, blurring the lines between objectivity and subjectivity. The paper calls for a reevaluation of how academic texts are produced, emphasizing the ethical responsibility of scholars to engage with complexity and contradiction, rather than seeking to resolve them. The implications for leadership research are profound, advocating for a more reflective and responsive scholarship that embraces the ambiguities inherent in organizational systems.</p>","PeriodicalId":45503,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Leadership Studies","volume":"19 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146199364","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Simple Simon and the Cult of Certainty: How Case Studies Offer What Pop Leaders Cannot","authors":"Derrick Neufeld, Julian Birkinshaw","doi":"10.1002/jls.70032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jls.70032","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Popular leadership ideas gain influence through clarity and certainty, often at the expense of nuance and theoretical depth. This paper examines the tension between popular leadership discourse and scholarly research, drawing on Bourdieu's field theory to explain why visibility and charisma tend to outweigh rigor in the marketplace of ideas. We argue that the business case study offers a productive alternative as a form of translational scholarship. Using examples from Ivey Business School, we show how cases engage leaders with context, ambiguity, and judgment rather than simplified prescriptions. In contrast to formulaic leadership narratives, the case method develops the capacity to think critically about complex, real-world dilemmas.</p>","PeriodicalId":45503,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Leadership Studies","volume":"19 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jls.70032","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146197026","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Curated Editorial Infrastructures: Balancing Rigor And Reach With Generative AI","authors":"Diego Alexander Quevedo Piratova","doi":"10.1002/jls.70037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jls.70037","url":null,"abstract":"<p>From a Bourdieuian perspective, scholarly publishing operates as a field where legitimacy is produced through editorial gate keeping and symbolic capital. This article proposes an AI-augmented editorial infrastructure designed to harmonize rigor and reach by foregrounding authorized, structured data, auditable epistemological filters, and participatory validation loops. It argues that editorial governance must accompany conceptual shifts to redistribute symbolic capital while preserving academic legitimacy. The framework rests on three commitments: (1) Authorized, structured data enabling passage-level traceability, persistent identifiers, and rich metadata; (2) Auditable epistemological filters that require precise citation of the exact passage, section, and DOI, explicit articulation of evidence strength, and scope-limiting warnings; and (3) Participatory validation that logs corrections and invites input from diverse audiences, producing versioned, citable artifacts. Generative AI capabilities; contextual translation, citation-aware summarization, semantic search over structured corpora, guided reading assistants, and claim-comparison tools; are reimagined as editorial augments rather than substitutes for human judgment. Potential risks include hallucination, bias amplification, privacy concerns, and decontextualization; safeguards emphasize transparent logs, human-in-the-loop review, redaction policies, and performance metrics. The analysis concludes that, with robust infrastructure and governance, journals may become dynamic platforms for dialogic engagement, broadening access to scholarship while sustaining rigorous standards and a legitimate redistribution of symbolic capital among scholars, practitioners, and policymakers.</p>","PeriodicalId":45503,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Leadership Studies","volume":"19 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146193676","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Pracademic Approach to Leadership Studies","authors":"Corey Seemiller","doi":"10.1002/jls.70036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jls.70036","url":null,"abstract":"<p>While robust scholarship and lengthy, often complex explanations are the norm when it comes to publishing in the academic world, everyday readers as well as other academics often just want to know, “What does this mean, and what can I do with this information?” But, unless content is more accessible in lay terms, some excellent scholarly research may go left unread, driving potential readers to publications that showcase more consumable and practical ideas, like trendy leadership books with scant credible research. However, there is a third space between heavy empirical academic publications and trendy books. This space is the “pracademic” world, one marked by the intersection of research and practical interpretation and application. This article will highlight the third space of “pracademia” in leadership studies, its importance in advancing the field, and tools to help academics navigate this space effectively.</p>","PeriodicalId":45503,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Leadership Studies","volume":"19 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jls.70036","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146091479","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"AI, Popular Leadership Advice, and the Scholar’s Audience: Rethinking Rigor and Accessibility","authors":"Alina Kiran","doi":"10.1002/jls.70031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jls.70031","url":null,"abstract":"<p>AI generated leadership advise is increasing eclipsing scholarly work by offering fast and accessible guidance. This paper argues that this shift comples leadership scholars to rethink who they write for and how to engage practitioners without losing academic rigor.</p>","PeriodicalId":45503,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Leadership Studies","volume":"19 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146057739","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bridging the Divide between Scholarly and Popular Leadership Writing","authors":"Nathan S. Hartman, Thomas A. Conklin","doi":"10.1002/jls.70028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jls.70028","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Leadership writing occupies a space between theoretical complexity and the human desire for practical insight. While popular leadership books often achieve wide resonance without scholarly rigor, academic journal articles frequently achieve rigor without broader relevance. Our article offers reasons for this bifurcation and suggests the use of the hermeneutic circle as a frame to interpret popular leadership texts not as threats to academic credibility, but as opportunities for reflection and reorientation. Through the hermeneutic circle, the relationship between scholarly and popular texts is conceptualized as recursive interplay between parts (e.g., rigor, audience) and wholes (e.g., influence, disciplinary norms). Rather than dismissing popular leadership books as failed scholarship, their appeal can be treated as a phenomenological encounter, what we describe as resonance. Drawing on the hermeneutic turn, phenomenology, and leadership studies, the article proposes a framework for interpreting resonance with readership as meaningful data about readers’ lived experiences. By taking resonance seriously, popular texts become portals into how leadership is understood and enacted in practice, offering insights that can inform, refine, and expand scholarly leadership research.</p>","PeriodicalId":45503,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Leadership Studies","volume":"19 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jls.70028","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146057730","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}