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ABSTRACT

This paper highlights three important problems characterizing much of current leadership studies: the hegemonic ambiguity problem, the idyllic problem, and the methodological problem(s). I suggest three broad routes forward – taking the concept, the ideological aspects, and the epistemic challenges more seriously - which in various ways address, and in best case mitigate, the three problems. Recognising that this is an on-going, global debate within leadership studies with many distinguished non-Scandinavian scholars taking part, I highlight some interesting, important, and rather recent Scandinavian/Nordic voices and new thinking that in various ways bring hope and suggest possible ways forward.

3. Concluding words

In this research note I have highlighted three important problems characterizing much of current leadership studies, partly addressed in a previous paper (Blom & Alvesson, 2015). I have extended that discussion by suggesting three broad routes forward – taking the concept, the ideological aspects, and the epistemic challenges more seriously – which in various ways address, and in best case mitigate, the three problems. This is of course not a mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive list of all problems that could be found within modern leadership studies but they nevertheless constitute a set of significant challenges.