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17 Citations
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Transformative Leadership and Contextual Change

  • John Grin,
  • Jan Hassink,
  • Vanja Karadzic and
  • Ellen H.M. Moors

25 June 2018

Transitions to deal with the grand challenges of contemporary societies require novel kinds of leadership, which can both stimulate novel organizational practices and changes in practices and structures in the organization’s context. This artic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Leading Sustainability Transitions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,207 Views
16 Pages

2 February 2026

For too long, schools and other organizations have relied on what have come to be known as technical, rational, or functional approaches to leadership, stemming in the global north, from scientific management in the early 20th century. Schools have b...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Transformative School Leadership: Strategies for Innovation and Improvement)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,548 Views
19 Pages

This study is guided by the pivotal yet underexplored question, “How does the resilience developed through the motherhood experience, particularly within the mother/child relationship, translate into a mother’s approach to her relationshi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
556 Views
23 Pages

Culturally Relevant Teacher Leaders’ Practice of Transformative Leadership

  • Samantha M. Paredes Scribner,
  • Eunice Laryea,
  • Paula A. Magee and
  • Craig Willey

This paper reports on research examining how teachers of color operationalize transformative leadership through their enactment of culturally relevant teacher leadership. in four midwestern urban schools. The authors have documented the ways in which...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Transformative School Leadership: Strategies for Innovation and Improvement)
  • Article
  • Open Access
868 Views
18 Pages

Despite increased recognition of its importance, most activities promoting the inclusion of women in leadership in the international schooling sector occur within discrete pockets or subgroups of women advocating for and supporting other women. Actio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Transformative School Leadership: Strategies for Innovation and Improvement)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
20,979 Views
18 Pages

8 April 2014

In this paper, the authors propose extending the construct of non-profit leadership to accommodate collaborative and transformational themes. The suggestion is that the resultant broader definition accords with the modern context within which non-pr...

(This article belongs to the Section Leadership)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,158 Views
16 Pages

Ignatian Leadership: A Hermeneutic Look at the Genesis, Development and Validity of Its Transformative Praxes

  • José María Villanueva Núñez-Lagos,
  • Ana García-Mina Freire,
  • Gonzalo Aza Blanc and
  • José María Guibert Ucín

20 June 2025

This article addresses a gap in the literature by offering the first structured reconstruction of the origins, motivations, and development of Ignatian Leadership, connecting its spiritual roots, conceptual foundations, and institutional applications...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,463 Views
19 Pages

15 October 2025

This study explored how school leaders in Arab schools in Israel enact transformative leadership to promote student social mobility and social justice. In the context of persistent structural inequalities and educational disparities, the study sought...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Transformative School Leadership: Strategies for Innovation and Improvement)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,619 Views
16 Pages

19 March 2026

In Australian education, the challenges and complexities of school leadership and the educational achievement of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people are frequently debated. Each has been given individual attention, but little attention...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Transformative School Leadership: Strategies for Innovation and Improvement)
  • Article
  • Open Access
54 Citations
12,443 Views
21 Pages

1 March 2019

Learning processes play a crucial role in the development of the transformative capacity of social innovation actors. This article builds on the recently developed Transformative Social Innovation (TSI) theory to propose a conceptual framework and re...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Leading Sustainability Transitions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,363 Views
19 Pages

Policy discourses of equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) have influenced Ontario’s K-12 education system for decades. Recently, EDI education policies have mandated that district school boards collect demographic data from students and staff. The...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Enhancing Educational Leadership and Management for Effective Education Policy Implementation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,059 Views
18 Pages

5 November 2025

This study was driven by two primary objectives. The first objective focused on exploring the relationship between transformational and transactional leadership practices and teachers’ perceptions of their principals’ effectiveness. The s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
22,647 Views
11 Pages

19 March 2021

Leading people from diverse cultures is centrally important in organizations. This study investigates the extent to which transformational leadership behaviors are universal: by examining if leaders and followers perceive transformational leadership...

(This article belongs to the Section Leadership)
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
855 Views
38 Pages

7 August 2026

Despite longstanding conceptual and measurement concerns surrounding transformational leadership, environmental applications of the paradigm have continued to proliferate through target-specific formulations and increasingly complex explanatory model...

(This article belongs to the Section Leadership)
  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
29,834 Views
20 Pages

Emotional intelligence is a second-stratum factor of general intelligence (MacCann et al. 2014) that: (a) has been popularly touted as an essential individual difference for effective leadership (Goleman 1998), but also (b) exhibits large gender grou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,583 Views
16 Pages

Educational leadership increasingly operates under conditions of uncertainty, ambiguity, and competing demands. The rapid emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) in education intensifies these challenges, requiring school leaders to navigate tensio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
12,223 Views
38 Pages

Transformational leadership has been proposed as an approach that can inspire effective change. How this is manifest in schools is understudied in Irish primary schools, which have undergone significant change in recent years. The focus of this quali...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Transforming Educational Leadership)
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  • Open Access
156 Views
19 Pages

13 October 2026

The construction sector is significant due to its numerous stakeholders, high-cost inputs, and its role in meeting the basic needs of communities such as housing and roads. The success of construction projects, their environmental friendliness, and t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
17,912 Views
38 Pages

Leadership 4.0: Navigating the Challenges of the Digital Transformation in Healthcare and Beyond

  • Georgios Tsekouropoulos,
  • Anastasia Vasileiou,
  • Greta Hoxha,
  • Dimitrios Theocharis and ,
  • Efthimia Theodoridou and
  • Theodosios Grigoriadis
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), characterized by the integration of advanced digital technologies, is transforming industries globally and significantly impacting leadership practices, particularly in the healthcare sector. As organizations a...

(This article belongs to the Section Leadership)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,233 Views
19 Pages

17 November 2020

In the realm of new localism and collaboration, local educational policymakers are called upon for responsible community leadership. Given the conceptual continuum between new localism and transformational leadership, this study examines the relation...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Education and Approaches)
  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
14,226 Views
13 Pages

24 June 2019

While there is a decline in the annual population of Taiwan, the number of crams schools in the supplementary education industry is increasing. A concern is that there are not enough students to go around. Cram schools are facing a difficult situatio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from 2nd Eurasian Conference on Educational Innovation 2019)
  • Review
  • Open Access
547 Views
29 Pages

5 October 2026

The rapid evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping how enterprises are led, organised, and governed, raising critical questions about which leadership attributes and practices best enable AI-driven digital transformation (AIDT). Enterpr...

(This article belongs to the Section Leadership)
  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
42,262 Views
11 Pages

4 November 2019

Transformational leadership (TL) is known to be essential to achieving Magnet® recognition, an internationally prestigious status for nursing care excellence. Since its inception in the 1980s, empirical studies have identified benefits of impleme...

  • Article
  • Open Access
592 Views
27 Pages

Transformational Leadership Drives Sustainable Behavior

  • Mohammad Aladaileh,
  • Abdullah Helalat,
  • Yara Katami and
  • Ikhlas Altarawneh

8 July 2026

This research paper examines the relations between transformational leadership and sustainable behavior at both individual and organizational levels, regarding employees in Jordanian hotels. The study examines the relationships between transformation...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Organizational Management in the Hospitality Industry: Green Climate, Leadership, Employee Engagement and Well-Being)
  • Article
  • Open Access
560 Views
21 Pages

23 April 2026

School leadership plays a key role in shaping school organization and professional practices, yet limited attention has been paid to how leadership styles vary across school contexts. Differences between rural and urban schools remain underexplored i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
9,696 Views
44 Pages

23 December 2024

This paper examines the vision, strategy and leadership support structures for Irish primary schools where leadership is specifically referenced, with focus on links to transformational and distributed school leadership. Of particular interest is how...

  • Review
  • Open Access
58 Citations
23,858 Views
27 Pages

13 January 2017

As the most-studied form of leadership across disciplines in both Western and Chinese contexts, transformational school leadership has the potential to suit diverse national and cultural contexts. Given the growing evidence showing the positive effec...

  • Review
  • Open Access
964 Views
13 Pages

Transformational leadership (TL) remains a dominant framework in educational leadership, yet its effectiveness appears inconsistent across institutional contexts, including higher education (HE). This study develops a contingent explanation of TL usi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Transformative Educational Leadership: Bridging Gaps and Breaking Barriers)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
16,067 Views
19 Pages

31 August 2023

Transformational leadership is important to the hotel industry where employees play a critical role in delivering the service. Transformational leadership is a leadership style that causes changes in employees by sharing the organization’s visi...

(This article belongs to the Section Organizational Behaviors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
8,750 Views
17 Pages

15 March 2025

The main objective of this study is to investigate the role of digital leadership in the sustainability of SMEs. Furthermore, this study examines the mediating role of digital transformation between digital leadership and SME sustainability and the m...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Effective Leadership and Management in the Sustainable Development of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises)
  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
17 Citations
66,814 Views
17 Pages

Transformational Leadership—Quality Achievements and Benefits for the Healthcare Organizations: A Scoping Review

  • Eleni Tsapnidou,
  • Martha Kelesi,
  • Michael Rovithis,
  • Georgios Katharakis and ,
  • Georgia Gerogianni,
  • Chrysoula Dafogianni,
  • Georgia Toylia,
  • Georgia Fasoi and
  • Areti Stavropoulou
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

26 July 2024

Effective nursing leadership is critical for healthcare organizations’ sustainability as nurse leaders influence many organizational aspects, including staff retention, quality of care, resource management, and development. The aim of this stud...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
9,579 Views
19 Pages

Fostering Organizational and Professional Commitment Through Transformational Leadership in Nursing: A Systematic Review

  • Eleni Tsapnidou,
  • Georgios Katharakis,
  • Martha Kelesi-Stavropoulou,
  • Michael Rovithis and ,
  • Sofia Koukouli,
  • Evangelia Sigala,
  • Maria Moudatsou,
  • Dimitrios Papageorgiou and
  • Areti Stavropoulou
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

Effective nurse leadership increases nurses’ job satisfaction, performance, motivation, and empowerment. Ensuring nurses’ organizational and professional commitment is vital for addressing quality, sustainability, and cost-effectiveness c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
14,033 Views
17 Pages

This study aims to analyze the nexus between transformational leadership and corporate entrepreneurship through an integration of dispersed scholarly work on transformational leadership, absorptive capacity, and corporate entrepreneurship under one f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,433 Views
21 Pages

Linking Transformational and Despotic Leadership to Employee Engagement: Unfolding the Role of Psychological Distress as a Mediator

  • Xiangyu Song,
  • Mishal Khosa,
  • Zeeshan Ahmed,
  • Abdulaziz Fahmi Omar Faqera and ,
  • Nhat Tan Nguyen,
  • Shafique Ur Rehman and
  • Yueyong He
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

19 July 2022

This research investigates the antecedents of employee engagement in Pakistan’s banks to conceptualize the idea of employee engagement. For this, the study examines the relationship between transformational leadership (TL), despotic leadership...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Ethical Leadership in Sustainable Organization Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,771 Views
13 Pages

Countless articles and books have been written about transformational leadership theory since the late 1970s when it first appeared in the literature. The purpose of this conceptual paper is to illustrate that transformational leadership contains bot...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Transforming Educational Leadership)
  • Article
  • Open Access
94 Citations
20,014 Views
22 Pages

24 February 2018

This article examines the extent to which culturally endorsed transformational leadership theories (CLTs) and the sustainability of society, both considered societal level institutional indicators, impact the emergence of social entrepreneurship. Usi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Towards Resilient Entrepreneurship and Technological Development in Self-Sustainable Economies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,719 Views
15 Pages

8 February 2024

This qualitative study investigates the behaviors and strategies of effective leadership teams within ethnic community-based organizations (ECBOs) operating in the United States that consist of leaders who are themselves former refugees. Through anal...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Teaching and Learning in Refugee/(Im)Migrant Communities Around the World)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,811 Views
12 Pages

15 November 2022

This study sought to examine how operational demands hinder individual well-being in firefighters, and also the extent to which fire chiefs’ transformational leadership style acts as an operational resource to attenuate this relationship. A total of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,189 Views
13 Pages

31 July 2018

The present research attempts to investigate an intermediating process that influences an association between transformational leadership and innovative behavior. Previous studies have mainly focused on the intrapsychic traits of individual employees...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
27,611 Views
14 Pages

Transformational Leadership and Its Impact on Job Satisfaction and Personal Mastery for Nursing Leaders in Healthcare Organizations

  • Ippolito Notarnicola,
  • Blerina Duka,
  • Marzia Lommi,
  • Eriola Grosha and ,
  • Maddalena De Maria,
  • Laura Iacorossi,
  • Chiara Mastroianni,
  • Dhurata Ivziku,
  • Gennaro Rocco and
  • Alessandro Stievano
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

18 November 2024

Background: Transformational leadership fosters trusting relationships; new visions; and personal, professional, and cultural growth. Effective leaders support their team’s motivational growth and organizational goals. This study aims to unders...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,378 Views
21 Pages

A Strategic Framework for Transformational Leadership Development in Megaprojects

  • Abdulla Abdulaziz Al-Subaie,
  • Mohd. Nishat Faisal,
  • Belaid Aouni and
  • Faisal Talib

21 March 2021

Project managers’ leadership has a direct and an indirect effect on project success. Extant literature has established that transformational leadership style positively affects project success in a major way. The main aim of this research is to under...

  • Article
  • Open Access
90 Citations
20,196 Views
23 Pages

25 March 2023

ESG is a sustainable development concept that integrates environmental, social, and corporate governance. Most studies on ESG have been conducted based on secondary data from listed companies and have not used questionnaires as a method for analysis....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Corporate Governance, Social Responsibility, Innovation, and Sustainable Business Development Goals)
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,668 Views
38 Pages

Transformational, Transactional, and Ethical Leadership in Sustainable Family Entrepreneurship: A Global Systematic Review

  • Monica Elisa Meneses-La-Riva,
  • Josefina Amanda Suyo-Vega,
  • Hitler Giovanni Ocupa-Cabrera,
  • Sofía Almendra Alvarado-Suyo and
  • Víctor Hugo Fernández-Bedoya

28 February 2026

Leadership plays a central role in the long-term sustainability of family enterprises, yet existing evidence is fragmented across contexts and methodologies. This systematic review synthesizes empirical findings on leadership practices that support s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging Family Firms: Leadership and Entrepreneurship)
  • Article
  • Open Access
156 Citations
33,576 Views
14 Pages

The Impact of Transformational Leadership on Job Performance and CSR as Mediator in SMEs

  • Faiza Manzoor,
  • Longbao Wei,
  • Mohammad Nurunnabi,
  • Qazi Abdul Subhan and ,
  • Syed Irshad Ali Shah and
  • Samaher Fallatah
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

15 January 2019

Leadership style is an important factor that affects the enhancement of organizational performance and employee’s job performance, and what objectives they should pursue, which also makes a profit for their employees or makes another social and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Developing Countries: Current Trends and Development)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
7,678 Views
15 Pages

In order to survive the fiercer competition, more and more service firms emphasize front-line employees’ role of creating excellent customer experience by displaying positive emotions during the service interactions. However, the underlying mec...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Work Psychology and Occupational Health)
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
12,266 Views
20 Pages

25 July 2025

In the current era of a dynamic environment, organizations need to continuously innovate and transform to remain competitive. Digital transformation is an essential driver across organizations, including small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), res...

  • Article
  • Open Access
77 Citations
56,768 Views
21 Pages

Leading in the Digital Age: The Role of Leadership in Organizational Digital Transformation

  • António Sacavém,
  • Andreia de Bem Machado,
  • João Rodrigues dos Santos,
  • Ana Palma-Moreira and ,
  • Helena Belchior-Rocha and
  • Manuel Au-Yong-Oliveira
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

3 February 2025

In the modern digital age, organizations face unprecedented challenges and possibilities while managing the intricacies of digital transformation. Accelerated technological developments, changing customer preferences, heightened competition, and dyna...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
860 Views
31 Pages

From AI Leadership to Innovation Efficiency: The Sequential Roles of Digital Capability Development and Human Capital Transformation

  • Vuk Mirčetić,
  • Aleksandar Ignjatović Pertini,
  • Stefan Milojević,
  • Aleksandra Vujko and
  • Ilija Životić

30 July 2026

Artificial intelligence is increasingly transforming organizational decision-making, yet the mechanisms through which AI Leadership contributes to innovation outcomes remain insufficiently understood. Drawing on dynamic capabilities theory, this stud...

  • Article
  • Open Access
120 Citations
15,475 Views
16 Pages

Impact of Teachers’ Commitment to the Relationship between Transformational Leadership and Sustainable Teaching Performance

  • Mohammed Alzoraiki,
  • Abd Rahman Ahmad,
  • Ali Ahmed Ateeq,
  • Gehad Mohammed Ahmed Naji and ,
  • Qais Almaamari and
  • Baligh Ali Hasan Beshr
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

4 March 2023

In the field of education, ongoing processes, and optimal schoolwork outcomes require educational leadership, especially in developing countries, due to the lack of sustainable teaching performance and effective leadership. The present study aims to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,312 Views
12 Pages

26 July 2023

Thriving at work is a positive psychological state in which individuals experience a sense of vitality and learning. The purpose of this quantitative study is to examine the effect of transformational leadership on innovative work behavior and the me...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Business and Organizational Behavior: Where Everything Begins)

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