Research Guides: Leadership Studies: EdD in Organizational Leadership

Introduction

Welcome to the Organization Leadership EdD libguide. This page will highlight resources curated to support teaching, learning, and research efforts throughout your program.

There are many opportunities to incorporate scholarly or practitioner resources and research skills in this program including

LEAD 691: Collaborative Learning Module
LEAD 672: Critical Thinking and Research Methods
LEAD 674: Organizational Assessment and Performance Improvement

and, of course, your culminating dissertation project.

To schedule a research consultation, select the appropriate option on V's appointment calendar.

Many resources relevant to your degree are already tagged in this guide (e.g., Finding Resources). If there's something unique or particularly noteworthy, you'll see it posted below.

Recommended Journals

International Journal of Leadership Studies
Covers topics related to leadership from different perspectives unique to different cultures, settings, and religions around the world.
Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies
Deals with all aspects of leadership & organizations. A forum for the expression of theory, research & practice, with special emphasis given to emerging, ideas, issues, trends & innovations.
Journal of Leadership Studies
Publishes leadership research and theoretical contributions that bridge the gap between scholarship and practice and that exemplify critical inquiry into contemporary organizational issues and paradigms.
Leadership Quarterly
Stresses theory and empirical research on effective leadership in all walks of life. Publishes scholarly research and developmental applications from fields of inquiry about leadership.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
Presents the best ideas in nonprofit management, philanthropy & corporate citizenship.

Educational Administration Quarterly: The Journal of Leadership for Effective & Equitable Organizations
Articles on education reform, governance and reform in colleges of education, and the professional preparation of educational administrators.
Educational Leadership
Articles presenting a variety of viewpoints aimed at leaders in elementary, middle and secondary education, those interested in curriculum, instruction, supervision and leadership in schools.
Principal Leadership
Focuses on school leaders' needs, offering practical, hands-on strategies for improving schools in a constantly evolving educational environment.
Journal of Leadership Education
Provides a forum for the development of the knowledge base and professional practice of leadership education world-wide.
Leadership & Policy in Schools
Presents information for school administrators about educational leadership and educational policy.
Journal of School Leadership
Articles examining educational administration in its broadest sense, application of theory in educational administration, staff development programs, utilization of educational administration concepts, practical applications of concepts.

Social Justice
Social Justice is a quarterly peer-reviewed educational journal that seeks to inform theory and praxis on issues of equality and justice.
Studies in Social Justice
Publishes articles on issues dealing with the social, cultural, economic, political, and philosophical problems associated with the struggle for social justice.
Social Justice Research
Acts as an multidisciplinary forum for the publication of original papers that have broad implications for social scientists investigating the origins, structures, & consequences of justice in human affairs.
Journal of Education & Social Justice
The purpose of the Journal is to create opportunities for issues to be addressed, for enrichment programs to be documented, and to improve the quality of social justice and education in this country.
Journal of Social Justice

Journal of Catholic Education
The Journal of Catholic Education (formerly Catholic Education: A Journal of Inquiry and Practice), currently hosted by Loyola Marymount University, is an open access journal representing Catholic colleges and universities, Catholic education leaders, and scholars from a variety of disciplines who are collectively committed to contributing research and encouraging best practice in Catholic elementary, secondary, and higher education by advancing the field of Catholic educational research.
Journal of Catholic Higher Education
The Journal of Catholic Higher Education is the peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary, semi-annual journal of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities. It is the only international journal dedicated solely to the distribution of scholarly work and commentary with a focus on contemporary Catholic higher education in the United States and around the world.
Christian Education Journal
Focuses on topics in religious education, including activities, theories and studies on the field.
Journal of Spiritual Formation & Soul Care
The Journal of Spiritual Formation & Soul Care is a peer-reviewed journal published twice a year. Its purpose is to advance the discussion of the theory and practice of Christian formation and soul care for the sake of the educational ministries of the church, Christian education, and other para-church organizations through scholarly publications that are rooted in biblical exegesis, systematic theology, the history of Christian spirituality, philosophical analysis, psychological theory/research, spiritual theology, and Christian experience.
Journal of Hindu Studies
About the Journal
The Journal of Hindu Studies is committed to a critical approach to Hindu Studies, focusing on themes that address overarching issues within the field, publishing the proceedings of research projects and conferences, and providing a forum for peer-reviewed articles.
Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs
Devoted to the investigation of politics, economics, education, history, literature, and sociology of Muslim minorities throughout the world.

Organizational Dynamics
Organizational Dynamics' domain is primarily organizational behavior and development and secondarily, HRM and strategic management. The objective is to link leading-edge thought and research with management practice. Organizational Dynamics publishes articles that embody both theoretical and practical content, showing how research findings can help deal more effectively with the dynamics of organizational life.
Organizational Research Methods
Organizational Research Methods (ORM) was established to bring relevant methodological developments to researchers working in organizational sciences. ORM’s goal is to enhance the use of current and new methodologies to advance theory and research practice.

Highlights ongoing qualitative research journals available at Copley Library. Use keywords like qualitative to search for more in Journals A-Z.

Qualitative Inquiry
Qualitative Inquiry provides an interdisciplinary forum for the latest world-leading research related to qualitative methodologies in the humanities and social sciences. To this end, the journal endeavors to publish across the methodological spectrum, including but not limited to ethnography, autoethnography, Indigenous methodologies, arts as research, reflexive thematic analysis, and participatory action research—as well as interdisciplinary developments and debates related to postmodern, poststructural, new materialist, and post-qualitative forms of inquiry. ~from website
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Alternate link: https://journals-sagepub-com.sandiego.idm.oclc.org/loi/qix
International journal of qualitative studies in education
The aim of the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (popularly known as QSE) is to enhance the practice and theory of qualitative research in education, with “education” defined in the broadest possible sense, including non-school settings.

The journal publishes peer-reviewed empirical research focused on critical issues of racism (including whiteness, white racism, and white supremacy), capitalism and its class structure (including critiques of neoliberalism), gender and gender identity, heterosexism and homophobia, LGBTQI/queer issues, home culture and language biases, immigration xenophobia, domination, and other issues of oppression and exclusion. ~from website
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Alternate link: https://www-tandfonline-com.sandiego.idm.oclc.org/loi/tqse20
Qualitative Research
Qualitative Research was established in 2001 by Sara Delamont and Paul Atkinson. The journal was founded to offer a critical and reflective gaze on methodological approaches, understandings and engagements, and worked to counter tendencies that imagined qualitative research could become a taken for granted set of precepts and procedures. Qualitative Research encourages authors to take a critical engagement with the orthodox and the heterodox, the familiar and the innovative, the modern and the postmodern, and the experimental and the traditional. The journal continues to be guided by the principles of the founding editors, and invites creative, critical engagements with methods, methodology and qualitative practice. ~from website
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Alternate link: https://journals-sagepub-com.sandiego.idm.oclc.org/overview-metric/QRJ
Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: An International Journal
Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management is an international journal committed to encouraging and publishing critical qualitative work from researchers and practitioners within the management and organizational field throughout the world. ~from website
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Alternate URL: https://www-emerald-com.sandiego.idm.oclc.org/insight/publication/acronym/qrom
Journal of Ethnographic & Qualitative Research
Publishes articles on topics relating directly to empirical qualitative research and conceptual articles addressing topics related to qualitative inquiry.
Departures in Critical Qualitative Research
Departures in Critical Qualitative Research (formerly Qualitative Communication Research) publishes innovative, experimental, aesthetic, and provocative works on the theories, practices, and possibilities of critical qualitative research. Departures is a forum for scholars in diverse disciplines to converse on, contest, and creatively reimagine the form, purpose, and mission of their work. ~from website
Qualitative Research Journal
Qualitative Research Journal is an international journal dedicated to communicating the theory and practice of qualitative research in the human sciences. Interdisciplinary and eclectic, QRJ covers all methodologies that can be described as qualitative. ~from website
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Alternate URL: https://www-emerald-com.sandiego.idm.oclc.org/insight/publication/acronym/qrj
Qualitative Research in Education
Qualitative Research in Education journal is an online journal fourth-monthly published by Hipatia which shows the results of qualitative researches aimed to promote significantly the understanding and improvement of the educational processes. Qualitative Research in Education gathers the outcomes from the educational researches carried out in different fields, disciplines and qualitative methodological approaches. These investigations have as a final purpose to improve the educational processes or contexts. Consequently, the journal will publish disciplinary and multi-disciplinary pieces of work linked to education and more precisely to Pedagogy, Sociology, Anthropology, History, Philosophy, Linguistics, Geography, Mathematics, Physical Education, Music or Political Science. ~from website
International Journal of Qualitative Methods
The journal was established in 2002 as an eclectic and international forum for papers reporting original methodological insights, study design innovations, and funded-project proposals using qualitative or mixed methods research that are useful to the global research community.~ from publisher