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Call for Papers: EGOS 2025 Athens – Sub-theme 74 - Beyond Boundaries: Unravelling Creative, Destructive, and Ambivalent Dynamics of Leadership in Organizations

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    Call for Papers: EGOS 2025 Athens – Sub-theme 74

    Beyond Boundaries: Unravelling Creative, Destructive, and Ambivalent Dynamics of Leadership in Organizations

    Dear colleagues,

    We are pleased to invite you to submit a short paper to Sub-Theme 74  at the 2025 EGOS Colloquium in Athens, which will explore the complex, creative, destructive, and ambivalent dynamics of leadership in organizations. This sub-theme aims to broaden our understanding of leadership beyond traditional models by examining the subtle interactions between leaders and followers that shape organizational life in diverse sociocultural contexts.

    We invite theoretical, empirical, and methodological papers, and although the list below is not exhaustive, possible questions papers may seek to address include:

    • How do micro-level relations lead to the emergence of new leadership structures, altering rules, roles, and expectations of leaders and followers within diverse organizations and sociocultural contexts?
    • How do leaders and followers engage in novel interactions contributing to creativity in leadership within organizations?
    • How do destructive leadership outcomes, actions, or inactions of interactants constrain creativity within organizational contexts?
    • How and to what effects does ambivalence in leadership arise, where actions or outcomes fall somewhere between purely creative and purely destructive?
    • How does the contextual focus of leadership studies within organizations, particularly those with a Global-North-centric perspective, impact the understanding of leadership interactions and outcomes in the Global South?
    • What challenges and opportunities arise in leadership practices within organizations in postcolonial Global-South contexts, and how do they differ from insights from conventional leadership studies?
    • How can organizational leadership research utilize methods to explore the uncharted territories of leadership formations, whether creative, destructive, or ambivalent, and their profound influence on interactants?

    Submission deadline: Please submit your short paper via the EGOS Member Area https://www.egos.org/2025_Athens/SUB-THEMES_Call-for-Papers

    We look forward to receiving your papers!

    Convenors:
    Dr Chidozie Umeh (University of York, UK)
    Prof. Nelarine Cornelius (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
    Prof. Thomas Garavan (University College Cork, Ireland)



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    Dr Chidozie Umeh
    Assistant Professor in Human Resource Management
    University of York
    Special Issues Editor, Personnel Review
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