“…In response to this critique and as a result of the development of the new leadership approaches, some movement towards a variety of qualitative methodologies to address this perceived weakness and to move the field forward (Bresnen, 1995;Bryman, Bresnen, Beardsworth, & Keil, 1988;Bryman et al, 1996;Conger, 1998;Ospina & Schall, 2001) has occurred. Many theories on leadership have been introduced, embraced and, in some cases, abandoned in favour of the new buzzwords in leadership research, such as authentic leadership (Garger, 2008) or ethical leadership (Brown & Trevino, 2006). Despite these developments, most of the leadership research literature is derived from the experiences of white males in the corporate, political and military sector, and often lacks explicit links between leadership and context (Elliott & Stead, 2008).…”