Vision:

We will appreciate the steady builders of traditional leadership research and we embrace the innovative and avant-garde.

Mission:

The International Leadership Journal is a peer-reviewed, online publication devoted to leadership – theory/research, education/development, and practice/application – and to all organizational phenomena – e.g., behavior, structure, culture, human, and other resources – that may affect or be affected by leadership. COTRUGLI Business School, Zagreb, Croatia (cotrugli.org), publishes the journal. It is available online at no cost to researchers, educators, practicing leaders, consultants, and others who may be interested in exploring leadership in all of its many forms through reading, writing, and discussion.

The purpose of the journal is threefold:

  1. to provide a high quality, inclusive, ongoing, online forum for leadership research, education, and practice to make a positive difference for leaders, organizations, and people worldwide;
  2. to offer new, innovative, provocative, and even controversial perspectives that can potentially contribute to unique directions in leadership studies, advance knowledge in the field, or re-conceptualize the study and practice of leadership;
  3. to promote integrative perspectives for leadership from an interdisciplinary perspective; international; interorganizational; open to multiple theoretical and perspectives and research methods, as well as to their interaction; inclusive of multiple contexts (organizational, social, cultural, political, aesthetic, technological), multiple sectors (e.g., business, nonprofit, government, education, military), multiple situations (e.g., new or established organizations, small or large organizations, networks, social movements, activist associations), and their common and distinct leadership issues.

The journal is different from most leadership journals for three reasons:

  1. It is international in scope and intended for broad international audiences. It solicits articles, teaching materials (including teaching case and teaching notes), reviews, comments, and responses from scholars, educators, practicing leaders, consultants, students, and others. It values a new shared, transnational, dispersed conception of leadership where people can understand and exercise leadership.
  2. It strongly encourages and supports mavericks who have the courage to challenge traditional and embedded ways of understanding, researching, teaching, developing, and practicing leadership, and who have the imagination to envision fresh concepts, theories, practices, and pedagogical strategies.
  3. It is one of only a few online leadership journals offered at no charge to readers. Its accessibility is consistent with the global movement to make leadership knowledge and/or practice available to at all organizational levels and in all sectors of society.

For more information about the International Leadership Journal, contact Dr. Joseph C. Santora, Editor:  jcsantora1@gmail.com