Editorial transitions: Hail and farewell

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Editorial transitions part 2 – hail and hello

“…In Dennis Tourish’s editorship (e.g., 2015, 2022), we have seen great strides in developing the journal as a critical outlet initiated by David and Keith and this is the primary focus of our own editorship. We are absolutely wedded to keeping this journal as a much-needed critical voice in leadership studies where papers have the space to ‘pose awkward questions and critique mainstream scholarship’ (Tourish, 2022: 725).…”

“…In Dennis Tourish’s editorship (e.g., 2015, 2022), we have seen great strides in developing the journal as a critical outlet initiated by David and Keith and this is the primary focus of our own editorship. We are absolutely wedded to keeping this journal as a much-needed critical voice in leadership studies where papers have the space to ‘pose awkward questions and critique mainstream scholarship’ (Tourish, 2022: 725). The three ambitions Dennis Tourish had when he took over the journal stand with us today and we will continue to push for criticality, addressing important issues in the world and encouraging a diverse way of theorising and writing (Tourish, 2022).…”

“…We are absolutely wedded to keeping this journal as a much-needed critical voice in leadership studies where papers have the space to ‘pose awkward questions and critique mainstream scholarship’ (Tourish, 2022: 725). The three ambitions Dennis Tourish had when he took over the journal stand with us today and we will continue to push for criticality, addressing important issues in the world and encouraging a diverse way of theorising and writing (Tourish, 2022). In our view these ambitions are interconnected and require a continued push for diversity and inclusion in how we organise ourselves, write, research, theorise, think, and live.…”

“…We take note here, as does Dennis Tourish in his farewell editorial, of Ann Cunliffe’s (2022) challenge to the wider area of organisation theory. In her paper (2022: 2), she highlights how theorising about theory ‘… continues to be rooted in an ideology of masculinized rationality, based on taken-for-granted masculinized values and language, and mainly done by men.’ We sense the same with theorising about leadership and hope to see papers that not only challenge the mainstream but also the ‘malestream’ (O’ Brien, 1981) of leadership research, a challenge, which again, has a strong tradition in our journal (see, for example, Ford, 2006, 2010). To encourage you to submit papers to us along these lines, we would like to offer some guiding words from Ann’s paper.…”