In Weber's writing and in leadership theory, charismatic leadership is associated with social change. However, the importance and desirability of charismatic leaders in change processes can be questioned, as well as the notion that charismatic leaders are invariably proponents of change. There are documented cases of charismatic leaders in religious and political contexts who have opposed ongoi...

This article evaluates the psychometric properties of a new measure for assessing the constructs of entrepreneurship, leadership, and professionalism, from an integrated point of view, the High Entrepreneurship, Leadership and Professionalism Questionnaire (HELP-Q). Exploratory factor analysis indicated a factor structure with three principal dimensions, and confirmatory factor analysis and goo...

Title: Leading for the long haul: a mixed-method evaluation of the sustainment leadership scale (SLS) Authors: Mark Ehrhart ([email protected]) Elisa Torres ([email protected]) Amy Green ([email protected]) Elise Trott ([email protected]) Cathleen Willging ([email protected]) Joanna Moullin ([email protected]) Gregory Aarons ([email protected]) Version: 2 Date: 30 Nov 2017 Author’s response t...

Handling Editor: M. Mumford While authentic leadership (AL) has seen a dramatic increase in scholarly attention over the last decade, its contribution relative to more established leadership constructs merits investigation. We employ meta-analytic techniques to compare AL and transformational leadership theories using 100 independent samples and 25,452 individuals. The findings reveal that (1) ...

Editor: Shane Connelly We develop amultilevelmodel to explain how affect and transformational leadership (TFL) influence team creative process behavior. We theorize, in particular, that a dual-level model of TFL, which incorporates both individual-focused TFL (addressing the individual differences of team members) and group-focused TFL (addressing the team as a whole) underlies affect–creativit...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate factors affecting the success of lean implementation in Thai logistics companies. Data was collected from the logistic companies implemented lean. Questionnaire survey was used to collect the data. Factor analysis and multiple regression analysis were conducted to understand the relationship between these factors and lean implementation success. The r...

This paper reports the findings of a survey of technology strategy of the Japanese companies. Results show that different Key Success Factors (KSF) for competition within an industry can be explained by environmental uncertainty and new technology impacts and that some of the technology strategy differ among various KSF groups. Therefore the environmental factors more or less affect the content...

Over the past years, Service-oriented Architecture (SOA) Systems have been recognized more and more as a serious alternative to common monolithic systems for Enterprise Architectures (EA). An SOA provides a flexible means of effectively mapping business processes to IT processes. However, large IT systems require consistent leadership – IT Governance. For SOAs, governance faces new challenges. ...