Preamble: Approach, Purpose, Structure, and Guiding Questions

Abstract

This book strives to support leaders when effecting success for their organizations, by leading their teams, projects, and organizations across borders in an increasingly boundaryless world. To this end, the book offers both an academic’s and practitioner’s perspective, amalgamating a curated selection of established experts, seasoned leaders, and new voices. Authors were invited to showcase novel research, best practices, and business cases, for the purpose of increasing international leadership capacities of effecting success across borders in a boundaryless world. As a result, a compendium of new knowledge around the international leadership phenomenon has been created, hopefully useful for academics interested in positive practice, for leaders and experts of international and internationalizing organizations, for leaders working across borders with their teams and projects, for leaders aspiring to work internationally, and for students preparing themselves for an international career.