Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies
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.
| Stefanie Johnson | University of Colorado Boulder, USA |
| Michael Palanski | Rochester Institute of Technology, USA |
| Bruce J. 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 Jesse H Jones Jones Graduate School of Business, USA |
| David Waldman | Arizona State University, USA |
| Barbara Wisse | Durham University, UK |
| Laurie Barclay | University of Guelph, Canada |
| Susanne Braun | Durham University Business School, UK |
| Min Carter | Southern Illinois University, USA |
| Lisa Dragoni | Wake Forest University, USA |
| Benjamin Galvin | BYU Marriott, 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 at Buffalo-SUNY, USA |
| Hannes Leroy | Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands |
| Gretchen Lester | San Jose State University, USA |
| Susan Murphy | University of Edinburgh Business School, UK |
| Becky Reichard | Claremont Graduate University, USA |
| Ron Riggio | Claremont McKenna College, USA |
| Daan Stam | Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands |
| Mahfooz A. Ansari | University of Lethbridge, Canada |
| James Avey | Central Washington University, USA |
| Somayeh Bahmannia | University of Canberra, Australia |
| Diana Bilimoria | Case Western Reserve University, USA |
| 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 |
| Jarle Eid | Universitetet i Bergen, Norway |
| B. Parker 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 |
| Michelle Hammond | Oakland University, USA |
| Paul Harvey | University of New Hampshire, USA |
| Lei Huang | Auburn University, USA |
| E . Kelloway | Saint Mary's University, USA |
| Rudolf Kerschreiter | Free University Berlin, Germany |
| Gretchen Lester | San Jose State University, USA |
| Paul B. Lester | Naval Postgraduate School, USA |
| Robert Liden | University of Illinois Chicago, USA |
| Manuel London | State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA |
| Kevin B. Lowe | The University of Sydney Business School, Australia |
| Jason Marshall | Creighton University, USA |
| Todd J. Maurer | Georgia State University, USA |
| John W. 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 Novelli | Stevens Institute of Technology, USA |
| Craig Pearce | Penn State University, School of Labor and Employment Relations, USA |
| Ann Chunyan Peng | University of Missouri, Columbia, 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 |
| Greg Thrasher | Oakland University, USA |
| Darren Treadway | Niagara University, USA |
| Frank Walter | Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany |
| Danni Wang | Rutgers University, USA |
| Peng Wang | Miami University, Ohio, USA |
| Cindy Wu | Baylor University, USA |
| Jun “Michelle” Yang | University of North Carolina, USA |
| Stephen Zaccaro | George Mason University, USA |
| Zhen Zhang | Arizona State University, USA |
| Weichun Zhu | Kean University, USA |
Manuscript submission guidelines can be accessed on Sage Journals.