Fourteenth Global Studies Conference

Abstract

Global leadership inspires and influences the thinking, attitudes, and behavior of people around the world towards achieving a common global goal (Adler, 1997; Beechler & Javidan, 2007; Osland & Bird, 2005; Sutton, Zander, & Stamm, 2013). This research study first provides an overview of the existing literature on the definition of global leadership from both micro and macro perspectives. Most studies around global leadership are limited to a single country, a small set of neighboring countries, a single organization, or top executives (Gerring, Oncel, Morrison, & Pemstein, 2019). Yet, the filed is evolving in both significance and complexity. Caligiuri argues “as the global environment evolves, so must the ideologies of global leaders (2006). As such, the authors then argue for a broader examination, using a critical theory lens, of global leadership by examining the subject from a socio-historical and power-influence relationship. Accordingly, the study identifies the limitation of global leadership ideologies and aims to expand the scope of global leadership by introducing the ideologies from socio-historical (Arkin, 1981; Holmes, 2018; Jervis, 2017; Yarhi-Milo, 2018) and religious (Herrington, 2013) perspectives. Finally, this study examines the global leadership power structure from a power-influence approach and the colonist global lens provides an accurate picture of colonialism’s influence and whose power and qualities, post-colonialism, are deemed global leadership (Mendenhall, 2018). This examination contributes to expanding the research in the field of the ideologies of global leadership and offer a needed yet unexamined perspective on the subject.