A Social Identity Theory of Leadership
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A Social Identity Theory of Leadership
A social identity theory of leadership is described that views leadership as a group process generated by social categorization and prototype-based depersonalization processes associated with social identity. Group identification, as self-categorization, constructs an intragroup prototypicality gradient that invests the most prototypical member with the appearance of having influence; the appea...
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عنوان ژورنال: Personality and Social Psychology Review
سال: 2001
ISSN: 1088-8683,1532-7957
DOI: 10.1207/s15327957pspr0503_1