Magnus Larsson

Brigid Carroll

Michelle C. Bligh

Olga Epitropaki

Doris Schedlitzki

This second edition handbook provides a retrospective and prospective overview of the state of knowledge on leadership as a multidisciplinary field, and utilises an innovative structure to create synergies between different leadership schools.

The SAGE Handbook of Leadership

Melissa K. Carsten

Rob Koonce

Marc Hurwitz

As the study of followership further escalates into the global mainstream of leadership studies, this book proactively engages future leaders and followers in issues that they are likely to face in various everyday human resource development, management, and leadership contexts.

Cases and Commentaries

Followership in Action

Mary Uhl-Bien

Raj Pillai

The majority of leadership theories and studies have tended to emphasize the personal background, personality traits, perceptions, and actions of leaders. From this perspective, the followers have been viewed as recipients or moderators of the leader's influence, and as vehicles for the actualization of the leader's vision, mission or goals. One of the major challengers of this dominant view was the late James R. Meindl. As an alternative to the leader-centric perspective on leadership, Meindl offered a follower-centric approach that views both leadership and its consequences as largely constructed by followers and hence influenced by followers' cognitive processes and inter-follower social influence processes. As a tribute to Jim Meindl and his contributions to the field of leadership studies, Information Age Publishing is releasing a book on follower-centered approaches to leadership. The book covers a wide variety of perspectives that acknowledge the active roles of followers in the leadership process. These include the psychoanalytical perspective, leadership categorization theory, social identity theory, the shared leadership approach, attribution of charisma through social networks, the role of the media in constructing images of the leader, the social construction of followership, vision implementation by followers and a post modern approach to followership. It is hoped that the volume will provoke readers to reflect upon and extend Jim Meindl's seminal work on followership. ars and practitioners curious about the nature of research on leadership, both those with much research exposure and those new to the field.

A Tribute to the Memory of James R. Meindl

Follower-Centered Perspectives on Leadership

Ronald E. Riggio

Leaders face new challenges as they cope with changes in culture, technology and the workplace. In this edited volume, based on a conference at Claremont, scholars of leadership studies from three continents discuss the latest psychological research on interpersonal leader–follower relations. The book tackles the impact of distance – physical, interpersonal and social – on our organizations, governments and societies.

When Near is Far and Far is Near

Exploring Distance in Leader-follower Relationships

Michelle C. Bligh

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