Global Leadership

About: Global Leadership is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1598 publications have been published within this topic receiving 29200 citations.

Educating for Global Leadership: A North–South Collaboration

Abstract: This chapter examines two global education programs in higher education, one in the global North and the other in the global South to explore the shift from command to community in leadership.

Here Be Paradox: How Global Business Leaders Navigate Change

Abstract: Although managing global change is one of the key competencies demanded of global leaders, it is one of the most under-researched topics in the field (Lane, Spector, Osland, & Taylor, 2014). This chapter shares findings from a recent qualitative study that examined how global business leaders navigate complex global changes. Data were collected from 23 global business executives working for 20 unique global enterprises, in 12 different functions, through a pre-interview participant qualifying profile, an in-depth semi-structured interview, and follow-up verification. Findings reveal that global business executives are contextual leaders who juggle both global task and global relationship complexities. The paradox is the process they employ to navigate continuous change, enabled by sensemaking. Finally, as agile learners, they prove that the global leadership capabilities required to navigate paradox can be learned.

China's Public Diplomacy for International Public Goods

Abstract: Since the late 1970s, the question of how to balance national and global interests has been one of the important considerations in China's grand strategy. Since 2012, China's top leaders have argued that China should provide international public goods (IPGs) and pay more attention to public diplomacy as a new model of big power diplomacy. Nevertheless, based on an examination of the recent literature, this article finds that most of the discussions highlight China's responsibility to provide IPGs rather than the motivations behind it. To obtain an accurate understanding of the real strategic motivations behind China's IPG public diplomacy, a necessary methodological innovation from normative to empirical studies should be undertaken. Drawing on case studies relevant to the topic, this article concludes that power advantage, institutional, and social ecological factors play determinative roles in understanding the motivations behind China's new IPG public diplomacy. Further, IPGs are regarded as core to China's new public diplomacy for global leadership in the foreseeable future. Within the context of emerging antiglobalization movements around the world, China's public diplomacy for IPGs aims to drive the nation further along the track of global leadership alongside the United States.