Purpose – Shared leadership describes leadership as a collective and reciprocal activity distributed among the members of a team (Carson et al. , 2007). The purpose of this paper is to investigate variables assumed to be antecedents for this leadership approach. In particular, the authors...

The field of candidates in the 2008 presidential campaign was easily the most diverse in U.S. history, encompassing racial and gender diversity on the Democratic side and a minority religion on the Republican side. In this paper, we explore the extent to which these factors and other factors...