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From Bad Leadership to Responsible
Leadership: The Revolution of Motives
Among Leaders
Esther Jiménez, Nuria Chinchilla, and Marc Grau-Grau
Is There Bad Leadership?
Te study of leadership dates back to ancient times, through both Eastern
and Western classical writings (Bass 1990), and it has accumulated a cen-
tury of scientifc studies (Antonakis and Day 2018). Despite the abun-
dant academic literature generated during this time, the richness and
complexity of the term makes its defnition difcult. In this sense, Fiedler
(1971) pointed out that
E. Jiménez
International University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
N. Chinchilla
IESE Business School, University of Navarra, Barcelona, Spain
e-mail: ejimenez@iese.edu; mchinchilla@iese.edu
M. Grau-Grau (*)
International University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
e-mail: mgraug@uic.es