Followership: a review of current and emerging research

Purpose Over time, the role of followers within leadership discourse has gained greater status, leading to being acknowledged as significant actors in process. This led development follower-centric studies, well more emergent research area followership, with followership having specific intention find out about from perspective followers. In this paper, authors provide a review role-based approaches, and implicit theories basis build case for follower (FIFTs) focus future research. Design/methodology/approach The conducted seminal current literature, on FIFTs studies African context. Findings Implicit have been an that added much value, such could do same are nascent and, such, should continue be explored order expand our understanding followership. Originality/value To best authors' knowledge, is one first literature reviews FIFTs,