A characteristic of the social sciences are their polysemic concepts, and strategic leadership is not an exception, so a framework is required that bases its study.This chapter explores the various theories that have emerged about leadership, with the purpose of bringing to the surface the interrelationships of diverse knowledge, which do not seem to be interconnected.The paradigms and approaches of the social sciences that have underpinned research on human behavior within organizations were reviewed, which made possible to show that theories on strategic leadership have been built from observations on the actions of leaders and followers, which are represented by words that, when interrelated, have generated concepts that are interwoven in a logical way, and thus account for their rigor as a phenomenon studied by the social sciences.