Since 2018, SAGE Business Cases (SBC) has been inviting authors to contribute to its Ancient Leadership series. This year’s series will explore ideas and examples of “transformational and adaptive leadership” through history, mythology, philosophy, and material culture.
Proposal deadline is February 10, 2025. Proposed cases may address current conversations related to the idea of “transformational and adaptive leadership.” Authors may wish to consider discussions of political and philosophical advancement, crafting and communicating vision, crisis management, learning from failure, technological innovation (past, present, and present). What lessons might these discussions pass onto a modern audience, and what does it really mean to lead through changing times? For additional topics that may be treated in these cases, see the full SBC call for submissions here.
We are interested in sources from the diverse cultures of the ancient Mediterranean basin, not merely limited to Greece and Rome, but also Persia, Phoenicia, Lydia, Egypt, Etruria, etc., as well as global antiquity, India, China, Africa, Americas, etc. We also seek to represent an inclusive array of individuals and leadership scenarios in ancient societies, especially in terms of gender, social status, economic class, and occupation. This project is a chance for those of us who work in the ancient world to experiment with a very mainstream method of leadership pedagogy and can be an opportunity to teach a wider audience about the central importance of the humanities for leadership study and training.
For a sample case from our past “Becoming a Leader” series, see here.
Case proposals can be submitted via this form. Each submission will consist of a case abstract and a set of proposed learning outcomes. The abstract (no more than 200 words) should provide a succinct overview of your case, giving SBC users a quick snapshot to assess your case’s relevance to their classroom or research needs. The learning outcomes should enumerate the specific learning goals of the case, highlighting what students will take away from the case and emphasizing the key lessons the material intends to impart. The learning outcomes should be formatted as a bulleted list, with no more than six individual learning outcomes.
Authors will be notified of proposal decisions by mid-February 2025. An online session for accepted authors will be held in late February to discuss writing effective business cases and field authors’ questions about the publication process. This session will be scheduled at a time to be accessible to the greatest number of participants. Authors are expected to submit their case narratives (1000-5000 words), along with companion teaching notes, by June 1, 2025, for review by the series co-editors and the SBC developmental editors. Authors will be compensated by SAGE when their case materials are accepted for publication.
Please don’t hesitate to email both of the series co-editors Irene Morrison-Moncure (imm270@nyu.edu) and Jared A. Simard (jared.simard@nyu.edu) at any point with questions on the series, the publication process, etc.
