Contextualizing leadership: a typology of global leadership roles

Actors, Structure, and Processes: A Review and Conceptualization of Global Work Integrating IB and HRM Research

“…A growing body of global leadership research emerged specifically in the IB field because IB scholars aimed to better understand the global context in which such leadership occurs and how leaders navigated the challenges of that context (Osland, 2018). Accordingly, recent research has derived a typology of different global leadership roles according to aspects of the specific task and relationship context a global leader experiences (Reiche et al, 2017). As such, this body of research provides an integrative perspective toward both role takers and role requirements in global work.…”

“…global leadership literature has recently highlighted substantive role differences of global leaders as they engage in and lead across global work contexts (Reiche, Bird, Mendenhall, & Osland, 2017). Failing to capture the nuances of global work arrangements with precision risks disguising important differences in the individual experience and organizational management of global work.…”

Urban Youth Scholars: Cultivating Critical Global Leadership Development through Youth-Led Justice-Oriented Research

“…Despite variations within the definition of global, and the challenges with articulating a universally accepted global leadership framework (Mendenhall et al 2012), scholars have arrived at consensus that the competencies that successful national leaders possess, serve as foundational components for the development of global leaders (Adler and Bartholomew 1992;Brake 1997;Goleman 1998;Gregersen et al 1998;Harvey and Buckely 2002). For instance, the global leadership development literature is divided between competency models (Bartlett and Ghoshal 1987;Dorfman 1996;Jokinen 2005;Morrison 2000) and contingency theories (Reiche et al 2017).…”

Here Be Paradox: How Global Business Leaders Navigate Change

“…Mendenhall, Reiche, Bird, and Osland (2012) argue that "the lack of a precise, rigorous, and commonly accepted definition of global leadership limits the field's conceptual and empirical progress" (p. 493). Reiche et al (2017) define global leadership as "the processes and actions through which an individual influences a range of internal and external constituents from multiple national cultures and jurisdictions in a context characterized by significant levels of task and relationship complexity" (p. 556).…”

“…Increasing interest in global leadership from both the research and practice communities has given birth to a new subfield in both international management and international human resource management (Mendenhall et al, 2018, p. viii). As a young research field, it has also experienced "growing pains" À lack of a construct definition, underconceptualization of global leadership, and fragmented research agendas and sampling criteria (Reiche, Bird, Mendenhall, & Osland, 2017). Ironically, Lane, Spector, Osland, and Taylor (2014) have asserted that managing global change is one of the key competencies demanded of global leaders; however, leading change in the global context is one of the most under-researched topics in global leadership.…”