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Leadership Template

Write in a clean editor, then format for Leadership in one click — DocuGuru applies the official SAGE template with author–year references and exports a submission-ready PDF plus the editable LaTeX source. Free to start.

About the Leadership format

Leadership is a peer-reviewed journal published by SAGE, covering Management and Organizational Studies, Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior, Management Theory and Practice.

PublisherSAGE
Reference styleAuthor–year (Harvard)
Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text
Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', Leadership, 12(3), pp. 45–58.

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Publishes research inManagement and Organizational Studies Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior Management Theory and Practice Organizational Learning and Leadership Gender Diversity and Inequality
ISSN1742-7150
Citation impact (2-yr)1.54
h-index81
i10-index509
Total citations26,953
Top institutions publishing hereLancaster University
Journal websitewww.sagepub.com
You getA submission-ready PDF and the editable LaTeX source — ready to submit.

Papers published in Leadership per year

50
2014
64
2015
62
2016
36
2017
154
2018
55
2019
157
2020
94
2021
93
2022
65
2023
33
2024
55
2025

Citation impact of Leadership by publication year

2.5K
2014
1.7K
2015
955
2016
785
2017
938
2018
499
2019
1.6K
2020
700
2021
399
2022
183
2023
129
2024
22
2025

Citations each year’s papers have accumulated so far — the most recent years are still building up.

Most-cited papers in Leadership

Leadership as Practice: Challenging the Competency Paradigm

Brigid Carroll, Lester Levy, David Richmond · 1 Nov 2008

Competency frameworks, models, instruments and thinking have long been ingrained and utilized in management and organizational life. Not surprisingly they have been transplanted both swiftly and seemingly easily into the leadership domain. While there certainly have been discomfort and critique from academic and practitioner sources, nothing has emerged strongly enough to date that would provide…

Leadership Competencies: Time to Change the Tune?

Richard Bolden, Jonathan Gosling · 13 Apr 2006

This article indicates how the competency approach to leadership could be conceived of as a repeating refrain that continues to offer an illusory promise to rationalize and simplify the processes of selecting, measuring and developing leaders, yet only reflects a fragment of the complexity that is leadership. To make this argument we draw on two…

Leadership: A communicative perspective

Gail T. Fairhurst, Stacey L. Connaughton · 7 Jan 2014

This paper reviews the literature on communication in organizations most relevant to the study of leadership. Although leadership communication research has a history of significant overlap with leadership psychology, the value commitments of a communicative orientation now find expression in a large body of extant literature that this paper reviews. These value commitments, which cross…

Exploring Servant Leadership across Cultures: A Study of Followers in Ghana and the USA

Jeff R. Hale, Dail Fields · 1 Nov 2007

In the shadow of corporate scandals such as Enron and Worldcom, an increase in attention has been directed towards an approach termed `servant leadership'. To date, servant leadership has been discussed and described almost entirely in the North American context (Farling et al., 1999; Spears, 1995). In the following study, we explored the extent to…

Imagine there are no leaders: Reframing leadership as collaborative agency

Joseph A. Raelin · 25 Nov 2014

Fearing that our overreliance on an individual, heroic model of leadership will only continue to dampen the energy and creativity of people in our organizations and communities, this essay proposes a practice perspective of leadership based on a collaborative agency mobilized through engaged social interaction. After briefly reviewing the emerging practice tradition in leadership studies,…

Leadership template — frequently asked questions

How do I write a paper in the Leadership format?
In DocuGuru you write your manuscript in a normal editor — no LaTeX setup required — and select the Leadership template. When you export, DocuGuru compiles the paper into the official SAGE format and hands you a submission-ready PDF along with the editable LaTeX source.
What reference style does Leadership use?
Leadership uses Author–year (Harvard) references, shown as author–year markers such as (Smith, 2023) in the text. DocuGuru formats every in-text citation and the reference list in this exact style automatically. A reference appears like this: Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', Leadership, 12(3), pp. 45–58.
Do I need to know LaTeX to submit to Leadership?
No. DocuGuru generates the sagej LaTeX class and compiles the PDF for you in the background, so you get a SAGE-ready Leadership document without writing any LaTeX. If you do want it, the LaTeX source is included in the export.
Can I import an existing draft into the Leadership template?
Yes. Paste or upload your current manuscript — Word, LaTeX, Markdown, or plain text — and DocuGuru reflows it into the Leadership format with correct headings, figures, tables, and author–year citations.
Who publishes Leadership?
Leadership is a multidisciplinary journal published by SAGE. DocuGuru's Leadership template matches SAGE's official submission format.
Can I export a submission-ready Leadership PDF?
Yes — DocuGuru produces a PDF built with the official Leadership template (the sagej class) that is ready to submit to SAGE, together with the matching LaTeX source files.
How much does the Leadership template cost?
You can start writing in the Leadership template for free. Exporting the final submission-ready Leadership PDF and LaTeX source is part of DocuGuru's paid plans — see the app for current pricing.
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