ABSTRACT
We saw in Part I of this Companion that writers in the eld of leadership have dierent views about the meaning of leadership and its signicance for organizations and societies. This section presents various approaches to the study of leadership in organizations. Each of the chapters provides in its own way a critical assessment of the scholarship in leadership studies and makes suggestions to push forward the boundaries of the eld. By reading these dierent contributions, we get the sense that the community of researchers in the eld feels a need to revitalize the study of leadership. They suggest doing so by proposing new theoretical frames and methodologies and by questioning some fundamental assumptions that have guided inquiry in the eld.
