This book has a clear concern to offer a distinctive way of studying leadership so that it might be practiced differently. It is distinctive in focusing on contemporary concerns about gender and ethics. More precisely, it examines the masculinity of leadership and how it might be challenged or disrupted.

David Knights is distinguished scholar in the Department of Organisation Work and Technology at Lancaster University Management School, and Professor at Oxford Brookes University Business School, UK.

Part I Leadership: An Overview. 1 - Reflecting on Leadership Studies. 2 - Genealogies of Leadership in Practice and Theory. Part II Conceptual Reflections on Leadership, Ethics, and Masculinity. 3 - Identity and Leadership. 4 - Power/ Resistance. 5 - Diversity/Gender and Leadership. 6 - Embodied Reason and Affective Leadership. 7 - Ethics and Leadership. Part III Empirical Illustrations of Leadership, Ethics and Masculinity. 8 - Academia and Education. 9 - Change, Innovation and Technology. 10 - Financial sector. 11 - Postscript.