This paper explores the context which informed the emergence of transformational leadership and entrepreneurship studies in the 1980s. It proposes that these interlinked expressions of business-management scholarship reflect an individualising ethic of the time which arose in light of studies of biography and the heroization of business leaders typical of the day. Criticisms of transformational leadership and entrepreneurship studies tend to miss these key aspects that inform the resultant discourses which still remain canonical in many aspects of business-school intellectual production today.
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