The updated Fourth Edition helps business students gain a better understanding of leadership enabling them to be more effective leaders through their careers. Key features: Real-world cases from around the world illustrate the complex nature of leadership in organizations and aide in the application of concepts to a practical setting Concept summaries, discussion questions, and readings for each chapter provide students with a solid framework for understanding key leadership theories

Author Biography

W. Glenn Rowe served in the Canadian Navy for 22 years. While still in the navy, he completed his MBA degree at Memorial University of Newfoundland part-time (1983-1986) and taught on a part-time basis for 2 years (1986-1988) in Memorial's Faculty of Business Administration. In 1990, he retired from the navy and became a full-time lecturer in the Faculty of Business Administration at Memorial. In 1992, he began studying leadership within the context of strategic management at Texas A&M University, where he completed his PhD in 1996. He rejoined the Faculty of Business Administration at Memorial in September 1995, where he taught strategic management and strategic leadership. Professor Rowe joined the Ivey Business School on July 1, 2001. He served as the faculty adviser for the PhD program in general management (including strategy) from January 2002 to July 2009. From July 2009 to June 2012, he served as the director of Ivey's Executive MBA Program. He currently serves as the coordinator for the General Management Area Group. He has taught strategy and strategic leadership to undergraduate business students, MBAs and EMBAs. He taught a strategy doctoral seminar from 2003 to 2009. In January 2016, he was appointed as the Executive Director, Ivey Publishing where he oversees Ivey's case publishing operation and the Ivey Business Journal. Professor Rowe serves as an ad hoc reviewer for several academic journals and is active in the community. He has facilitated strategic-thinking sessions for several organizations including a couple of banks, a fish farming company, and others such as the Alliance for the Control of Tobacco (Newfoundland and Labrador), the Newfoundland and Labrador Medical Association, Fishery Products International, Gros Morne National Park, and Sir Wilfred Grenfell College. He was the coauthor of a strategic management textbook and its associated casebook, both of which went to a their third edition. He is a co-author on a second strategic management textbook having joined the author team for the 9th edition. His research is published in journals such as the Strategic Management Journal, the Journal of Management Studies, the Journal of Management, the Leadership Quarterly, the Journal of World Business, the Journal of Business Ethics and the Journal of Management Inquiry. Laura Guerrero worked in retail management for 10 years in Canada, the United States, and Mexico. She has an undergraduate degree in economics from The University of Texas at El Paso. Later, she completed an MBA with a concentration on management and organizational studies at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada. In 2009, she graduated with a PhD in business administration at the Ivey Business School at Western University. In addition to her interest in gender and culture as they relate to leadership, her research has focused on careers of expatriates and immigrants. She was at The University of Texas at El Paso for seven years. Currently she is in the College of Business at the University of Houston - Clear Lake, where she teaches management and human resources