Volume 9 of the journal, "Advances in Global Leadership," includes timely and impactful articles on processes associated with effective global leadership. In these times of accelerating complexity and global inter-connectedness, a deeper understanding of the multiple contextual, organizational, and individual variables and processes associated with effective global leadership is critical. This volume contributes to bridging and integrating conceptual and practitioner perspectives in pursuing this deeper understanding. A new section of this year's volume is devoted to articles that apply and expand concepts from traditional leadership to global leadership -- an area that has heretofore received very little attention. Another new section contains articles written by consultants who provide perspectives gained from the "front lines" of global leadership development in client organizations. The volume's contributors range from well-known voices in the field to newly minted scholars with a fresh perspective.

This series seeks to advance the definition, conceptualization, and understanding of global leadership processes and the development of global leaders. This volume considers the ethical domain of global leadership, global leadership through the lens of extant leadership theory, global leadership and cognition, and the practitioners' corner. The topics include understanding multicultural individual as ethical global leader, global followership: the launch of the scholarly journey, collective global leadership in self-managed multicultural teams: the role of team goal orientation, cosmopolitanism in a globalized world: an interdisciplinary perspective, and global talent: beyond outsourcing. -- Annotation * (protoview.com) *

Edited by Joyce S. Osland, School of Global Innovation & Leadership, Lucas College and Graduate School of Business, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, USA Ming Li, Hull University Business School, University of Hull, Hull, UK Mark E. Mendenhall, College of Business, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN, USA