Purpose: Drawing on stakeholder theory, this study examines the relationship between responsible leadership and its macro-, meso- and micro-level outcomes. Further, this study investigates the moderating role of authenticity on the relationship between responsible leadership and its multi-level...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to identify who people indicate are their role models for learning how to lead and explore how demographic characteristics may affect these choices. Design/methodology/approach: A global online survey, involving over 34,000 respondents, indicated, from a...

Purpose: The purpose of this research is to identify the effect of transformational leadership and transactional leadership on task performance, as well as the mediating role of psychological empowerment. Design/methodology/approach: A questionnaire survey was sent to 177 academic staff in a...

Purpose: This paper aims to report the findings of a study examining the relationship between different leadership styles and engagement through the mediating role of proactive personality. Design/methodology/approach: Servant leadership, paradoxical leadership, authentic leadership, employee...

Purpose: The aim of this study is to evaluate to what extent the project team size influence the relation between transformational leadership and success of international development projects (IDPs). The paper draws on leader-member-exchange (LMX) theory and contextualizes transformational...

Purpose: Research reported in this manuscript focuses on the relationship between trait suspicion and the perception of abusive supervision. Based on previous research, the authors assume that suspicion is positively related to the perception of abusive supervision. The role implicit theories...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to explore how inclusive leadership promotes organizational performance through ambidextrous innovation (i.e. exploratory and exploitative innovation). Moreover, the authors examine the moderating role of environmental uncertainty in the relationship...

Purpose: Based on the social exchange theory, this study explores the mechanism of leader–subordinate power distance orientation (PDO) congruence with employees' taking charge behavior (TCB) and also verifies the moderated mediation effect of employees' promotion regulatory focus (PROM-F) on...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to better understand the consequences of trust between personnel at different hierarchical levels for organizational effectiveness. The authors aim to explore the direct effects and the interaction effects of trust with organizational structure and...

Purpose: This study draws on the upper echelon perspective and effectuation theory to put insights on the relationship between sustainable leadership and sustainable performance. Design/methodology/approach: The study had adopted the cluster-sampling approach to collect data from 500 small and...