Abstract
Research related to strategic leadership has risen swiftly in quantity but distributed across divergent academic fields and their respective literatures. Hence, this represents an appropriate time to put forward a wide reaching review that identifies, summarises and integrates the already produced research while highlighting shortcomings in the field and future paths for research. This methodical review of the literature resulted in the identification of 414 articles on the Web of Science database spanning the period between 1985 and 2017. Applying systematic and thorough content analysis, with recourse to bibliometric techniques, the authors here reviewed the articles, identified the core theories and methodologies applied in them. This review served to identify significant gaps in the knowledge in terms of the theoretical orientation and the central content under study. The authors correspondingly propose a broad range of suggestions on all of these topics to help in resolving these shortcomings in knowledge while also raising important questions for future research. The main contributions of this article are: defining and summarising the multi-level literature emerging around strategic leadership; integrating and extracting the potential theoretical contributions from this field; and informing on directions for future research. This article furthermore proposes an integrated model and in addition to a theoretically relevant and innovative agenda that opens up new paths for future research and theory building.
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