Using self-report personality data and 360-degree performance evaluations of 973 managers across various contexts, we investigated the leader trait paradigm using a range of machine learning methods....

At the very end of the 1990s a number of social psychologists started to draw on and extend social identity theorizing to understand leadership as a social influence process grounded in a sense of shared group membership – one in which people’s potential to lead rests on the extent to which they are perceived by followers to embody the group’s i...

The study of leadership has always evolved, but this is truer than ever before as we transition into the 21st century (Dinh et al. 2014). The rapid evolution in the study of leadership reflects real world realities in geopolitical and institutional change and in particular, the advancement of technology (Kremer, 1993)....

Going beyond the mere participation of female directors within boardrooms, we investigate which of the two major boards of directors' roles (advisory versus monitoring) is best played by female directors in order to make a difference to shareholders....

Norway was the first of ten countries to legislate gender quotas for boards of publicly traded firms. There is considerable debate and mixed evidence concerning the implications of female board representation....

This inductive study extends scholarship on gender, feedback and leadership by drawing on a large naturalistic data set of 1057 narrative developmental feedback comments to 146 political leaders in the UK....

To understand what drives corporate leaders to choose certain corporate governance practices there is need to look beyond the individual traits of the leader, examining the effect of the elements of the institutional environment on managerial decisions....

There is a widespread use of leadership development (LD) for students in higher education; however, less is known about the effectiveness of such practices. We provide a summative and meta-analytic review to identify the state of LD programs for students in higher education (i.e., undergraduate and graduate students)....

Notwithstanding the proliferation of servant leadership studies with over 100 articles published in the last four years alone, a lack of coherence and clarity around the construct has impeded its theory development....

We study authentic leadership as a prominent but problematic example of positive leadership that we use as a more general “warning” against the current fashion of excessive positivity in leadership studies....