Overview of the embodied leadership literature
| Community | Conceptual view of EL | Relevant works | Approach | Scholarly area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leader development | Leader development of self-awareness regarding own physiological states and associated internal processes leading to the self-regulation of physically displayed behavior | Bigo & Islam (2022) | Empirical | Management education |
| Blake (2009) | Practice | Coaching | ||
| Brendel & Bennett (2016) | Practice | Human resource development | ||
| Briers (2015) | Practice | Training | ||
| Hamill (2011) | Practice | Leader development | ||
| Kenward (2018) | Practice | Leader development | ||
| Lord & Shondrick (2011) | Conceptual | Organizational behavior | ||
| O’Malley et al. (2009) | Conceptual | Organizational behavior | ||
| Parra Vargas et al. (2023) | Empirical | Organizational behavior | ||
| Rigg (2018) | Conceptual | Management education | ||
| Rubentheran et al. (2025) | Conceptual | Leader development | ||
| Schuyler (2010) | Practice | Coaching | ||
| Szelwach (2020) | Case study | Leader development | ||
| Szelwach et al. (2023) | Case study | Leader development | ||
| Leadership aesthetics | Leader use of posture, gesture and bodily movement to stimulate the senses and accompanying feelings, perceptions and thoughts of followers in a co-creative space | Bathurst & Cain (2013) | Case study | Organizational behavior |
| Ford et al. (2017) | Empirical | Organizational behavior | ||
| Hanold (2017) | Case study | Human resource development | ||
| Hansen et al. (2007) | Conceptual | Organizational behavior | ||
| Ladkin (2006) | Conceptual | Organizational behavior | ||
| Ladkin (2008) | Case study | Organizational behavior | ||
| Ladkin (2013) | Conceptual | Liberal arts | ||
| Ladkin & Taylor (2010a) | Conceptual | Organizational behavior | ||
| Ladkin & Taylor (2010b) | Conceptual | Liberal arts | ||
| Reh et al. (2017) | Review | Organizational behavior | ||
| Ropo & Salovaara (2019) | Conceptual | Liberal arts | ||
| Woolsey et al. (2024) | Empirical | Leadership development | ||
| Leadership emergence | The recognition of contextual cues through bodily senses and the related use of bodily interactions to signal others in the co-creation of collective efforts toward a desired outcome | Collinson (2018) | Viewpoint | Organizational behavior |
| Fisher & Robbins (2015) | Case study | Liberal arts | ||
| Mensch & Barge (2019) | Conceptual | Business ethics | ||
| Raelin (2005) | Conceptual | Organizational behavior | ||
| Raelin (2011) | Conceptual | Liberal arts | ||
| Raelin (2016) | Conceptual | Liberal arts | ||
| Raelin (2020) | Conceptual | Liberal arts | ||
| Ropo Sauer, & Salovaara (2013) | Conceptual | Liberal arts |
| Community | Conceptual view of | Relevant works | Approach | Scholarly area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leader development | Leader development of self-awareness regarding own physiological states and associated internal processes leading to the self-regulation of physically displayed behavior | Empirical | Management education | |
| Practice | Coaching | |||
| Practice | Human resource development | |||
| Practice | Training | |||
| Practice | Leader development | |||
| Practice | Leader development | |||
| Conceptual | Organizational behavior | |||
| Conceptual | Organizational behavior | |||
| Empirical | Organizational behavior | |||
| Conceptual | Management education | |||
| Conceptual | Leader development | |||
| Practice | Coaching | |||
| Case study | Leader development | |||
| Case study | Leader development | |||
| Leadership aesthetics | Leader use of posture, gesture and bodily movement to stimulate the senses and accompanying feelings, perceptions and thoughts of followers in a co-creative space | Case study | Organizational behavior | |
| Empirical | Organizational behavior | |||
| Case study | Human resource development | |||
| Conceptual | Organizational behavior | |||
| Conceptual | Organizational behavior | |||
| Case study | Organizational behavior | |||
| Conceptual | Liberal arts | |||
| Conceptual | Organizational behavior | |||
| Conceptual | Liberal arts | |||
| Review | Organizational behavior | |||
| Conceptual | Liberal arts | |||
| Empirical | Leadership development | |||
| Leadership emergence | The recognition of contextual cues through bodily senses and the related use of bodily interactions to signal others in the co-creation of collective efforts toward a desired outcome | Viewpoint | Organizational behavior | |
| Case study | Liberal arts | |||
| Conceptual | Business ethics | |||
| Conceptual | Organizational behavior | |||
| Conceptual | Liberal arts | |||
| Conceptual | Liberal arts | |||
| Conceptual | Liberal arts | |||
| Conceptual | Liberal arts |
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