Topic outline

  • Materials

    The materials of this course will be provided in the Outro essay assignment, after the first lecture. The materials for this course are about 20-23 articles. The current selection is (presented in the suggested reading order):

    Overview of leadership literature:

    Glynn, M. A., & Raffaelli, R. (2010). Uncovering Mechanisms of Theory Development in an Academic Field: Lessons from Leadership Research. The Academy of Management Annals, 4(1), 359–401. 
    Yukl, G. (1989). Managerial Leadership: A Review of Theory and Research. Journal of Management, 15(2), 251–289. 
    House, R. J., & Aditya, R. N. (1997). A Social Scientific Study of Leadership: Quo Vadis? Journal of Management, 23(3), 409–473.
    Avolio, Bruce J., Walumbwa, F. O., & Weber, T. J. (2009). Leadership: Current Theories, Research, and Future Directions. Annual Review of Psychology, 60(1), 421–449. 
    Alvesson, M. (2019). Waiting for Godot: Eight major problems in the odd field of leadership studies. Leadership, 15(1), 27–43.

    Hero theories of leadership: 

    Conger, J. A., & Kanungo, R. N. (1987). Toward a Behavioral Theory of Charismatic Leadership in Organizational Settings. The Academy of Management Review, 12(4), 637–647.
    Bass, B. M., & Steidlmeier, P. (1999). Ethics, character, and authentic transformational leadership behavior. The Leadership Quarterly, 10(2), 181–217. 
    Avolio, B. J, & Gardner, W. L. (2005). Authentic Leadership Development: Getting to the Root of Positive Forms of Leadership. The Leadership Quarterly, 16(3), 315–338.
    van Dierendonck, D. (2011). Servant Leadership: A Review and Synthesis. Journal of Management, 37(4), 1228–1261. 

    Post-heroic theories of leadership:

    Gronn, P. (2002). Distributed leadership as a unit of analysis. The Leadership Quarterly, 13(4), 423–451.
    Crevani, L., Lindgren, M., & Packendorff, J. (2007). Shared Leadership: A Postheroic Perspective on Leadership as a Collective Construction. International Journal of Leadership Studies, 3(1), 40–67.
    Drath, W. H., McCauley, C. D., Palus, C. J., Van Velsor, E., O’Connor, P. M. G., & McGuire, J. B. (2008). Direction, alignment, commitment: Toward a more integrative ontology of leadership. The Leadership Quarterly, 19(6), 635–653.
    Denis, J.-L., Langley, A., & Sergi, V. (2012). Leadership in the Plural. The Academy of Management Annals, 6(1), 211–283.

    Psychological theories of leadership:

    Hogg, M. A. (2001). A Social Identity Theory of Leadership. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 5(3), 184–200.
    Judge, T. A., Bono, J. E., Ilies, R., & Gerhardt, M. W. (2002). Personality and leadership: A qualitative and quantitative review. Journal of Applied Psychology, 87(4), 765–780. 

    Critical and social constructionist theories of leadership:

    Smircich, L., & Morgan, G. (1982). Leadership: The Management of Meaning. The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 18(3), 257–273.
    Meindl, J. R., Ehrlich, S. B., & Dukerich, J. M. (1985). The Romance of Leadership. Administrative Science Quarterly, 30(1), 78. 
    Gemmill, G., & Oakley, J. (1992). Leadership: An alienating social myth? Human Relations, 45(2), 113–129.
    Fairhurst, G. T., & Grant, D. (2010). The Social Construction of Leadership: A Sailing Guide. Management Communication Quarterly, 24(2), 171–210. 

    Relationship based theories of leadership:

    Graen, G. B., & Uhl-Bien, M. (1995). Relationship-based approach to leadership: Development of leader-member exchange (LMX) theory of leadership over 25 years: Applying a multi-level multi-domain perspective. The Leadership Quarterly, 6(2), 219–247.
    Cunliffe, A. L., & Eriksen, M. (2011). Relational leadership. Human Relations, 64(11), 1425–1449.

    A debate article:
    Gardner, W. L., Karam, E. P., Alvesson, M., & Einola, K. (2021). Authentic leadership theory: The case for and against. The Leadership Quarterly, articles in advance.

    The course staff may make changes in the course material until the first lecture. 

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