ABSTRACT
The final chapter brings together insights gained in the previous chapters and critically discusses their relevance and implications for research on leadership and narratives with regard to current analytical, methodological, and conceptual debates around leadership. We argue that the different – largely linguistic – analytical and methodological approaches that we have introduced in each chapter provide fruitful and innovative ways of exploring leadership (narratives) and should thus be considered more systematically by future research on leadership across disciplines. At the same time, we also explicate how our observations contribute to current debates around theorisations of leadership – especially with regard to conceptualisations of leadership, dark leadership, authentic leadership, critical leadership, gendered leadership, and hegemonic notions of leadership. We end the chapter by outlining several concrete avenues for future research, calling for more attempts to build bridges – such as the various chapters in this book have done – between leadership researchers across different disciplines.
