ABSTRACT
The field of leadership, reviewed in the previous chapter, is not the sole contributor to understanding global leadership. The differences in degree and kind between domestic and global leadership are also rooted in global leadership’s multidisciplinary evolution. There are numerous fields that global leaders would benefit from studying, such as international affairs, economics, anthropology, and cross-cultural psychology, to name just a few. However, the field of global leadership has drawn heavily from four fields of study in particular that address communicating and being effective across cultures (intercultural communication competence), working overseas (expatriation), managing around the world (global management), and leading people from other nations (comparative leadership). We will briefly cover the highlights of these fields that relate to global leadership and identify their contributions to the study of global leadership.
