You are here

PLEASE NOTE: Sage UK Distribution including UK Books Customer Services will be closed for a stocktake from 27th November to 29th November. This affects only book orders and queries from the UK. Any orders placed during this period, or queries emailed, will be dealt with as normal when service resumes on 2nd December. Thank you for your patience and we apologise for any inconvenience caused.

Disable VAT on Taiwan

Unfortunately, as of 1 January 2020 SAGE Ltd is no longer able to support sales of electronically supplied services to Taiwan customers that are not Taiwan VAT registered. We apologise for any inconvenience. For more information or to place a print-only order, please contact uk.customerservices@sagepub.co.uk.

Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies

Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies

Published in Association with Midwest Academy of Management

eISSN: 19397089 | ISSN: 15480518 | Current volume: 31 | Current issue: 4 Frequency: Quarterly
The purpose of JLOS is to publish research aimed at helping us understand and predict effective leadership – leadership of people, groups, and organizations. JLOS continuously renews and reinvigorates leadership scholarship, practice and policy by promoting forward thinking scholarship. While leadership in organizations can be informal, it occurs in the context of people holding and acting within the scope of formal positions of management. Thus we seek to advance research that has clear functional value to managers and leaders across organizations and cultures. JLOS serves to promote scholarship that asks and/or seeks answers to grand questions, embraces paradox, addresses key fissures in scholarly and practical knowledge, and that challenges traditions, paradigms, and the status quo to create jolts and discontinuous growth in the learning curve of the field of leadership and management.

Submit your manuscript today at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/JLOS.

JLOS publishes impactful, unique, and creative research findings derived from testing theory-driven hypothesis through strong methodologies, while also publishing impactful theory development and cutting-edge application articles that advance the canon of knowledge on leadership and its interrelationships with other organizational phenomenon. JLOS seeks to break paradigms and encourage creative approaches to conceptualizing, measuring, and assessing leadership. For empirical articles, the journal encourages a wide variety of sound methods, whether quantitative, qualitative, neuroscience, physiological testing, experience sampling, observational studies, or other methods.

JLOS is less concerned that any one article has “the answer,” as impactful leadership research can equally make great contributions by raising key questions for future research – such as why a particular set of results occurred, or how our results would change in different contexts or under different contingencies. We are far more interested in great ideas, with practical impact for those who practice management and leadership than in publishing studies with “expected” results. In sum, research – especially well conducted research with important practical implications – is messy and we encourage research in which exploration and discovery are as important as results.

Leadership is also too often studied context-free, while in practice leadership occurs in the presence of a multitude of contextual factors and formal authority structures. JLOS thus is interested in scholarship in which researchers have embedded their work into a relevant context, and that not only offers practical implications, but has implications that are clear and valuable to those who practice leadership and management in non-profit, governmental, business and other work organizations. Further, leadership doesn’t occur in a vacuum, but while individuals lead others to perform discrete functions and to pursue specified goals and objectives. Leaders, for example, don’t just motivate followers, but motivate them to do something – something important to the team, organization, etc. Yet many tested models do not account for such factors. JLOS seeks articles that link leadership with its functional demands and outcomes. This in part may entail linking leadership in meaningful ways to organizational goals, functions, and performance pursuits, to practices in organizations such as entrepreneurship, strategy/strategic thinking, operations, and human resources, or to professions such as health care/medicine, financial management, etc. To achieve these goals, JLOS recognizes that applying context to the study of leadership can be in tension with a paper’s level of generalizability. JLOS recognizes this tradeoff and will support authors who seek to achieve balance. Such important inquiry may also need to span or combine micro-, meso-, and macro-level research.

Further, JLOS seeks articles that are forward-looking and that link leadership to emerging phenomenon such as big data, the sharing economy, and machine learning. Finally, JLOS encourages work that recognizes the global nature of the world, including international research and cross-cultural studies as they relate to leadership and its intersections with organizational studies.

Editors-in-Chief
Stefanie Johnson University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
Michael Palanski Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
Senior Editors
Bruce Avolio University of Washington, USA
Sean Hannah Wake Forest University, USA
Tim Judge Ohio State University, USA
Ron Piccolo University of Central Florida, USA
John Schaubroeck University of Missouri, USA
Daan van Knippenberg Rice University, USA
David Waldman Arizona State University, USA
Barbara Wisse University of Groningen, Netherlands
Associate Editors
Laurie Barclay University of Guelph, Canada
Susanne Braun Durham University, UK
Min Carter Southern Illinois University, USA
Lisa Dragoni Wake Forest University, USA
Benjamin Galvin Brigham Young University, USA
Michelle Hammond Oakland University, USA
Paul Hanges University of Maryland, USA
Tiffany Keller Hansbrough Binghamton University, USA
Chad Hartnell Georgia State University, USA
Nathan Hiller Florida International University, USA
Jim Lemoine University of Buffalo, USA
Hannes Leroy Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands
Gretchen Lester San Jose State University, USA
Susan Murphy University of Edinburgh, UK
Becky Reichard Claremont Graduate University, USA
Ron Riggio Claremont McKenna College, USA
Daan Stam Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands
Editorial Board
Mahfooz Ansari University of Lethbridge, Canada
James Avey Central Washington University, USA
Somayeh Bahmannia University of Canberra, Australia
Dustin Bluhm University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA
Kimberley Breevaart Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands
Claudia Buengeler Kiel University, Germany
Sankalp Chaturvedi Imperial College Business School, UK
Joanne Ciulla Rutgers University Newark Business School, USA
Catherine Deen University of New South Wales, Australia
B. Ellen III Northeastern University, USA
Brooke Gazdag Kuehne Logistics University, Germany
Megan Gerhardt Miami University, USA
Fabiola Gerpott WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management, Germany
Steffen Giessner Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, Netherlands
Paul Harvey University of New Hampshire, USA
Lei Huang Auburn University, USA
Rudolf Kerschreiter Free University Berlin, Germany
Manuel London State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA
Kevin Lowe The University of Sydney Business School, Australia
Jason Marshall Creighton University, USA
Todd Maurer Georgia State University, USA
John Michel Loyola University Maryland, USA
Ivana Milosevic College of Charleston School of Business and Economics, USA
Tyree Mitchell Louisiana State University, USA
Jeffrey Muldoon Emporia State University, USA
Sibel Ozgen Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
Craig Pearce Penn State University, School of Labor and Employment Relations, USA
Radostina Purvanova Drake University, USA
Christian Resick Drexel University, USA
Shanggeun Rhee Kean University, USA
Antje Schmitt University of Groningen, Netherlands
Gerard Seijts Western University, USA
John Sumanth Wake Forest University, USA
Gregory Thrasher Oakland University, USA
Darren Treadway Niagara University, USA
Danni Wang Rutgers University, USA
Peng Wang Miami University, Ohio, USA
Cindy Wu Baylor University, USA
Jun Yang University of North Carolina, USA
Stephen Zaccaro George Mason University, USA
Weichun Zhu Kean University, USA
  • Business and Company Resource Center - Gale
  • EBSCO: Business Source Complete
  • EBSCO: Business Source Corporate
  • EBSCO: Sales & Marketing Source
  • EBSCOhost: Current Abstracts
  • Gale: Expanded Academic ASAP
  • General Business File ASAP - Gale
  • General Reference Center Gold - Gale
  • InfoTrac (full text)
  • PsycINFO
  • Scopus
  • Manuscript submission guidelines can be accessed on Sage Journals.

    Individual Subscription, Print Only


    Institutional Backfile Purchase, E-access (Content through 1998)


    Institutional Subscription, E-access


    Institutional Subscription & Backfile Lease, E-access Plus Backfile (All Online Content)


    Institutional Subscription, Print Only


    Institutional Subscription, Combined (Print & E-access)


    Institutional Subscription & Backfile Lease, Combined Plus Backfile (Current Volume Print & All Online Content)


    Individual, Single Print Issue


    Institutional, Single Print Issue