Refinding Leadership in Refounding Public Administration

Abstract

The refounding movement emerged the same time as Leadership Studies. As leadership practices were conflated with management practices, much of what might be useful in the refounding in the literature on leadership was either (a) simply missed or (b) modestly addressed by these scholars. Any reasserting of the refounding should consider the lessons of leadership and especially of the leadership studies thread dealing with values leadership theory. This article encourages theory building and a model as it traces the development of leadership studies, leadership research during the refounding project, and the increase of leadership research in the field.