All Stories

  1. From Pipelines to Ecosystems: Navigating Discontinuities and Disconnects in Higher-education Leadership Recruitment and Development

    Article • European Review, April 2026, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Richard Bolden

  2. The Dark Pyramid: Unpacking the Multidimensional Nature of the Dark Side of Leadership

    Article • British Journal of Management, March 2026, Wiley

    Professor Richard Bolden

  3. Beyond the Unethical Leader: A Dispositional Analysis of Unethical Leadership in the Case of Theranos

    Article • Journal of Business Ethics, November 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Richard Bolden

  4. Over worked and undervalued? Knotted tensions of identity, purpose, and change in contemporary higher education

    Article • Studies in Higher Education, September 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Richard Bolden

  5. Facilitative Leadership: Re‐Framing Narratives to Navigate Conflict and Difference

    Article • Journal of Leadership Studies, December 2024, Wiley

    Professor Richard Bolden

  6. Antecedents and consequences of distributed leadership in Indian higher education

    Article • The International Journal of Educational Management, October 2024, Emerald

    Professor Richard Bolden, ANISHYA OBHRAI MADAN

  7. Making a difference

    Article • April 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Richard Bolden

  8. Three perspectives on leadership in higher education: a literature review

    Article • Higher Education, January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Richard Bolden

  9. Why is collective leadership so elusive?

    Article • Leadership, October 2022, SAGE Publications

    Professor Richard Bolden

  10. Evaluating shifting perceptions and configurations of social capital in leadership development

    Article • Leadership, October 2022, SAGE Publications

    Professor Richard Bolden

  11. Learning from collective lived experience: a case study of an experts by experience group

    Article • Housing Care and Support, October 2022, Emerald

    Professor Richard Bolden

  12. An emergent process for activating system change: insights from Golden Key Bristol

    Article • Housing Care and Support, September 2022, Emerald

    Beth Fouracre, Professor Richard Bolden

  13. Leadership development evaluation (LDE): reflections on a collaboratory approach

    Article • Organizational Analysis, April 2022, Emerald

    Professor Richard Bolden

  14. Putting leadership in its place: Introduction to the special issue

    Article • Leadership, February 2022, SAGE Publications

    Professor Richard Bolden

  15. Parker, M. (Ed.), Life After COVID-19: The Other Side of Crisis

    Article • Colombo Business Journal International Journal of Theory and Practice, December 2021, Sri Lanka Journals Online (SLJOL)

    Professor Richard Bolden

  16. How do you develop systems leadership in public health? Insights from a scoping study

    Article • Public Health, July 2021, Elsevier

    Professor Richard Bolden

  17. Systems leadership in practice: thematic insights from three public health case studies

    Article • BMC Public Health, November 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Richard Bolden

  18. Leading to Achieve Social Change: An Interview with Ruth Hunt, Former Chief Executive Officer of Stonewall

    Article • Journal of Management Inquiry, June 2020, SAGE Publications

    Professor Richard Bolden

  19. Tackling complex problems through systems leadership development

    Article • International Journal of Public Administration, April 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Richard Bolden

  20. Leadership and Creativity in Public Services: An Interview With Lord Michael Bichard, Chair of the National Audit Office

    Article • Journal of Management Inquiry, January 2017, SAGE Publications

    Professor Richard Bolden

  21. Digital Disruption and the Future of Leadership

    Article • Journal of Management Inquiry, March 2016, SAGE Publications

    Professor Richard Bolden

  22. Leadership Paradoxes

    Article • February 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Richard Bolden

  23. Hybrid configurations of leadership in higher education employer engagement

    Article • Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, July 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Richard Bolden

  24. Leadership and branding in business schools: a Bourdieusian analysis

    Article • Higher Education Research & Development, January 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Richard Bolden, Prof Jonathan R Gosling

  25. Citizens of the academic community? A societal perspective on leadership in UK higher education

    Article • Studies in Higher Education, January 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Richard Bolden, Prof Jonathan R Gosling

  26. Distributed Leadership in Organizations: A Review of Theory and Research

    Article • International Journal of Management Reviews, April 2011, Wiley

    Professor Richard Bolden

  27. Building regional capacity: lessons from Leadership South West

    Article • Education + Training, November 2009, Emerald

    Professor Richard Bolden

  28. Distributed Leadership in Higher Education: What Does It Accomplish?

    Article • Leadership, July 2009, SAGE Publications

    Prof Jonathan R Gosling, Professor Richard Bolden

  29. Leadership in Higher Education: Facts, Fictions and Futures — Introduction to the Special Issue

    Article • Leadership, July 2009, SAGE Publications

    Prof Jonathan R Gosling, Professor Richard Bolden

  30. African Leadership

    Article • International Journal of Cross Cultural Management, April 2009, SAGE Publications

    Professor Richard Bolden

  31. Distributed Leadership in Higher Education

    Article • Educational Management Administration & Leadership, March 2009, SAGE Publications

    Prof Jonathan R Gosling, Professor Richard Bolden

  32. Tensions in Higher Education Leadership: Towards a Multi-Level Model of Leadership Practice

    Article • Higher Education Quarterly, October 2008, Wiley

    Professor Richard Bolden, Prof Jonathan R Gosling

  33. Leadership Competencies: Pros and cons for developing and measuring performance

    Article • Leadership, May 2006, SAGE Publications

    Prof Jonathan R Gosling, Professor Richard Bolden

  34. Familiarity breeds content: The impact of exposure to change on employee openness and well-being

    Article • Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, June 2002, Wiley

    Dr Chris Stride, Professor Richard Bolden

  35. Measures of perceived work characteristics for health services research: Test of a measurement model and normative data

    Article • British Journal of Health Psychology, September 1999, Wiley

    Dr Chris Stride, Professor Richard Bolden

  36. From the data mine to the knowledge mill: Applying the principles of lexical analysis to the data mining and knowledge discovery process

    Article • January 1998, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Richard Bolden

  37. Minor psychiatric disorder in NHS trust staff: Occupational and gender differences

    Article • The British Journal of Psychiatry, December 1997, Royal College of Psychiatrists

    Professor Richard Bolden

  38. A new taxonomy of modern manufacturing practices

    Article • International Journal of Operations & Production Management, November 1997, Emerald

    Professor Richard Bolden

  39. Users' reactions to information technology: some multivariate models and their implications

    Article • Journal of Information Technology, March 1997, Nature

    Professor Richard Bolden

  40. Leadership Development as a Catalyst for Social Change

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Richard Bolden

  41. Ubuntu

    Article • SAGE Publications

    Professor Richard Bolden

  42. Regional Development

    Article • SAGE Publications

    Professor Richard Bolden