ABSTRACT
The increasing demand for leadership in rapidly changing organizations around the globe has accelerated the growth of leadership research in recent decades. Particularly, the developments of communicative understandings of leadership have gained momentum. The chapter presents these developments through four discursive lenses, that is, leadership as an objective phenomenon (normative), as an interpretive accomplishment (interpretive), as a form of power and control (critical), and as dialogue and practice (dialogic), respectively. Key leadership theories and communication insights are highlighted in each perspective.
