Chapter 1 Being There Even When You are Not: The Leadership of
A key distinction, mentioned by Dubin (1979, p. 227) , is “leadership at a distance.” When Dubin was writing, there was little research on this topic. More recently, however, there has been an upsurge in leadership-at-a-distance work. We see a major review by Antonakis and Atwater (2002) , following an earlier one by Napier and Ferris (1993) , along with work by authors such as Shamir (1995) and Waldman and Yammarino (1999) .