The Leadership Industry and the Cultural Production of Leadership
将领导力发展产业视为文化产业，提出四维理论框架解释其如何塑造人们对领导力的期望，并映射到教练、评估和商学院教育三个领域，帮助从业者、消费者和学者提升产业素养。
We extend existing theory on leadership development by conceptualizing the leadership development industry as a cultural industry that not only responds to instrumental demands for more and better leaders, but also coproduces and shapes symbolic, interpretive, and affective expectations regarding the importance of leaders and leadership. Combining research on the meaning-laden and aesthetic dimensions of leadership development with sociological research on cultural industries, we introduce a theoretical framework to explain the four key dynamics that drive the leadership development industry: (1) framing and interpreting meaning, (2) mediating and coproducing development, (3) claiming and contesting authority, and (4) affirming the dominant industry logic. To exemplify our framework, we map these dynamics onto three diverse sectors that mobilize the dominant, leader-centered industry logic as a coordinating principle: (1) leadership coaching, (2) leadership assessment, and (3) executive leadership education in business schools. We conclude by detailing how our framework can equip providers, consumers, and scholars with increased “industry literacy,” which we define as the critical capacity to recognize how industry dynamics shape leadership development programs and practices, and to act on that recognition by adopting and promoting more reflexive, transparent, and participatory modes of engagement.