THE EVOLUTION OF INCLUSIVE LEADERSHIP STUDIES: A literature review

Abstract

The dramatic increase of diversity on US college campuses has coincided with greater academic interest on the concept of inclusive leadership. The present literature provides a systematic analysis of literature from its forming phases in the early 1990s to its present condition. Priority publications were selected rigorously and then examined in order to better determine what theoretical emphasis each of the three decades might have yielded and which what these studies reveal about the evolution of this relatively new leadership paradigm. From the review themes were identified and observations were made for future research purposes.