Limitations and Opportunities in Entrepreneurial Innovation and Education: Values in Authentic Leadership

Abstract

This chapter provides personal – co-autoethnographic – reflections on the concept of authentic leadership from authors' professional and life experiences, synthesising factors that could be applied to a hypothetical leader. The authors come from Fortune 500 businesses, entrepreneurship start-ups and the research- and teaching-focused sphere of academia. While they recognise the foundation of authentic leadership, they see trends in the unspoken doctrines – primarily quantitative, positivistic and overly optimistic biases – to be factors hindering its development. The authors discuss practical and theoretical limitations of authentic leadership and suggest these provide the basis for research to develop an understanding of authenticity in leadership.

Citation

Sakalauskas, D.P. and Terry, G.S. (2023), "Limitations and Opportunities in Entrepreneurial Innovation and Education: Values in Authentic Leadership", Turcan, R.V., Reilly, J.E., Jørgensen, K.M., Taran, Y. and Bujac, A.I. (Ed.) The Emerald Handbook of Authentic Leadership, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 359-373. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80262-013-920231016