Warning for excessive positivity: Authentic leadership and other traps in leadership studies

Authentic leadership development: Getting to the root of positive forms of leadership

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Authentic Leadership: Development and Validation of a Theory-Based Measure†

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Ethics, character, and authentic transformational leadership behavior

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On making causal claims: A review and recommendations

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Sincerity and Authenticity

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An evaluation of conceptual weaknesses in transformational and charismatic leadership theories

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TARGET ARTICLE: Toward a Conceptualization of Optimal Self-Esteem

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Authentic leadership: A review of the literature and research agenda

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A Critical Assessment of Charismatic—Transformational Leadership Research: Back to the Drawing Board?

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The Lonely Crowd

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Leadership in teams: A functional approach to understanding leadership structures and processes

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“What's your story?”: A life-stories approach to authentic leadership development

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Leadership, creativity, and innovation: A critical review and practical recommendations

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FEEDBACK-SEEKING IN INDIVIDUAL ADAPTATION: A RESOURCES PERSPECTIVE.

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Being and time: a translation of Sein und Zeit

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Defining and Measuring Servant Leadership Behaviour in Organizations

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Achieving relational authenticity in leadership: Does gender matter?

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A meta-analytic review of authentic and transformational leadership: A test for redundancy

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The importance of authenticity for self and society

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Taking Stock of Moral Approaches to Leadership: An Integrative Review of Ethical, Authentic, and Servant Leadership

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The Fall of Public Man

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On doing better science: From thrill of discovery to policy implications

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Looking forward but learning from our past: Potential challenges to developing authentic leadership theory and authentic leaders

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The dangers of poor construct conceptualization

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Charisma: An ill-defined and ill-measured gift

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Organizational cynicism: Extending the exit, voice, loyalty, and neglect model of employees' responses to adverse conditions in the workplace

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The Mindlessness of Organizational Behaviors

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The Dark Side of Transformational Leadership: A Critical Perspective

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Authenticity

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Integrity and leadership: A multi-level conceptual framework

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Construct redundancy in leader behaviors: A review and agenda for the future

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Leadership studies: From procedure and abstraction to reflexivity and situation

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Balance in leader and follower perceptions of leader–member exchange: Relationships with performance and work attitudes

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Authentic leadership and positive organizational behavior: A meso, multi-level perspective

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Discursive Leadership

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Unraveling HRM: Identity, Ceremony, and Control in a Management Consulting Firm

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Transformational Leadership, Corporate Cultism and the Spirituality Paradigm: An Unholy Trinity in the Workplace?

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Life: A Story in Search of a Narrator

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The impossibility of the ‘true self’ of authentic leadership

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Behavioral appropriateness and situational constraint as dimensions of social behavior.

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When Passionate Advocates Meet Research on Diversity, Does the Honest Broker Stand a Chance?

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Hegel's idea of a phenomenology of spirit

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Sensemaking and the Distortion of Critical Upward Communication in Organizations

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Prozac leadership and the limits of positive thinking

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Metaphors we lead by: understanding leadership in the real world

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Anti-social Actions of Committed Organizational Participants: An Existential Psychoanalytic Perspective

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Debunking the false dichotomy of leadership idealism and pragmatism: Critical evaluation and support of newer genre leadership theories

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Leadership BS: fixing workplaces and careers one truth at a time

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Reflexive Leadership: Organising in an imperfect world

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A reconceptualization of authentic leadership: Leader legitimation via follower-centered assessment of the moral dimension

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Paradoxes of authentic leadership: Leader identity struggles

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Intellectual Failure and Ideological Success in Organization Studies

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The Authenticity Paradox

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Hegel's Idea of a 'Phenomenology of Spirit'

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Is critical leadership studies ‘critical’?

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Money Matters: Teflonic Identity Manoeuvring in the Investment Banking Sector

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Leadership BS: Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time

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Self-Knowledge and the Self

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A very short, fairly interesting and reasonably cheap book about studying leadership

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Authentic leadership in context: An analysis of banking CEO narratives during the global financial crisis

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Business Ethics and Continental Philosophy

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The Triumph of Emptiness

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Never let an academic crisis go to waste: Leadership Studies in the wake of journal retractions

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Self Knowledge And The Self

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Retraction of leadership articles: Causes and prevention

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Authentic Leadership Theory, Research and Practice

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Viewpoint: the authentic leader reconsidered: integrating the marvellous, mundane and mendacious

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Authentic leadership critically reviewed

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The Problematizing Review: A Counterpoint to Elsbach and Van Knippenberg’s Argument for Integrative Reviews

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Leadership Styles: A Comprehensive Assessment and Way Forward

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Ethical leadership: Mapping the terrain for concept cleanup and a future research agenda

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Meanings of Theory: Clarifying Theory through Typification

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Authentic leadership theory: The case for and against

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Leadership and work engagement: Exploring explanatory mechanisms

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A critique of the Leader-Member Exchange construct: Back to square one

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A meta-analysis of the role of trust in the leadership- performance relationship

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The Theory Crisis in Management Research: Solving the Right Problem

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A multilevel investigation of the link between ethical leadership behaviour and employees green behaviour in the hospitality industry

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Antecedents and outcomes of authentic leadership across culture: A meta-analytic review

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Reviving employees’ essence of hospitality through spiritual wellbeing, spiritual leadership, and emotional intelligence

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Upbeat leadership: A recipe for – or against – “successful” leadership studies

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Effects of charismatic leadership and rewards on individual performance

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Zombie leadership: Dead ideas that still walk among us

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Authentic leadership and career satisfaction: the meditating role of thriving and conditional effect of psychological contract fulfillment

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Be(com)ing Real: a Multi-source and an Intervention Study on Mindfulness and Authentic Leadership

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Does leadership still not need emotional intelligence? Continuing “The Great EI Debate”

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The Science of Leadership: A theoretical model and research agenda

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Reconciling identity leadership and leader identity: A dual-identity framework

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Servant leadership influencing store-level profit: The mediating effect of employee flourishing

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A fatal flaw: Positive leadership style research creates causal illusions

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Let’s agree about nice leaders: A literature review and meta-analysis of agreeableness and its relationship with leadership outcomes

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Knowing me, knowing us: Personal and collective self-awareness enhances authentic leadership and leader endorsement

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CEO Sociopolitical Activism as a Signal of Authentic Leadership to Prospective Employees

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From genes to minds to cultures: Evolutionary approaches to leadership

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Differentiating leader hubris and narcissism on the basis of power

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The Art of Phenomena Construction: A Framework for Coming Up with Research Phenomena beyond ‘the Usual Suspects’

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Beyond the ritualized use of questionnaires: Toward a science of actual behaviors and psychological states

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The perils of authentic leadership theory

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When leader humility meets follower competitiveness: relationships with follower affective trust, intended and voluntary turnover

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The dark side of leadership: A systematic review of creativity and innovation

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Advancing the democratization of work: A new intellectual history of transformational leadership theory

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An Inconvenient Truth: A Comprehensive Examination of the Added Value (or Lack Thereof) of Leadership Measures

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Critical literature reviews: A critique and actionable advice

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Putting leader (follower) behavior back into transformational leadership: A theoretical and empirical course correction

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Does authentic leadership stimulate organizational citizenship behaviors? The importance of affective commitment as a mediator

Ribeiro, N. M. P., Duarte, A. P., Filipe, R., & David, R. (2021) · Sustainability Accounting Management and Policy Journal · doi:10.1108/sampj-11-2019-0423 · Cited by 62 · see citing works

How and when top manager authentic leadership influences team voice: A moderated mediation model

Zheng, X., Liu, X., Liao, H., Qin, X., & Ni, D. (2022) · Journal of Business Research · doi:10.1016/j.jbusres.2022.02.073 · Cited by 48 · see citing works

The Impact of Authentic Leadership on Innovative Work Behavior: Mediating Roles of Proactive Personality and Employee Engagement

Bai, Y., Wang, Z., Alam, M., Gul, F., & Wang, Y. (2022) · Frontiers in Psychology · doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2022.879176 · Cited by 46 · see citing works

Moral Recovery and Ethical Leadership

Cullen, J. G. (2020) · Journal of Business Ethics · doi:10.1007/s10551-020-04658-3 · Cited by 49 · see citing works

‘Only Connect!’: Exploring the Critical Dialectical Turn in Leadership Studies

COLLINSON, D. L. (2020) · Organization Theory · doi:10.1177/2631787720913878 · Cited by 47 · see citing works

The effect of servant leadership on innovative work behavior and employee knowledge sharing in the Latvian ICT sector

Reslan, F. Y. B., Garanti, Z., & Emeagwali, O. L. (2021) · Baltic Journal of Management · doi:10.1108/bjm-09-2020-0321 · Cited by 40 · see citing works

Measuring behaviors counterfactually

Fischer, T. (2023) · The Leadership Quarterly · doi:10.1016/j.leaqua.2023.101750 · Cited by 45 · see citing works

Organizational performance with a broader focus: The case for a stakeholder approach to leadership

Lemoine, G. J., Eva, N., Meuser, J. D., & Falotico, P. (2020) · Business Horizons · doi:10.1016/j.bushor.2020.10.007 · Cited by 43 · see citing works

A systematic and critical review of research on respect in leadership

Rudolph, C. W., Katz, I. M., Ruppel, R., & Zacher, H. (2020) · The Leadership Quarterly · doi:10.1016/j.leaqua.2020.101492 · Cited by 41 · see citing works

Managers’ Resources for Authentic Leadership – a Multi‐study Exploration of Positive Psychological Capacities and Ethical Organizational Climates

Fladerer, M. P., & Braun, S. H. (2020) · British Journal of Management · doi:10.1111/1467-8551.12396 · Cited by 42 · see citing works

Community engagement through responsible leadership in managing pandemic: insight from India using netnography

Mehta, M., Sarvaiya, H., & Chandani, A. (2020) · International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy · doi:10.1108/ijssp-06-2020-0214 · Cited by 41 · see citing works

Leadership Strategies for Managing Change and Fostering Innovation Over Private Higher Education

Awashreh, R. A. (2025) · Advances in human resources management and organizational development book series · doi:10.4018/979-8-3373-0149-5.ch018 · Cited by 37 · see citing works

Charisma in the gig economy: The impact of digital leadership and communication channels on performance

Nieken, P. (2022) · The Leadership Quarterly · doi:10.1016/j.leaqua.2022.101631 · Cited by 40 · see citing works

Understanding the Leaders of Tomorrow: The Need to Study Leadership in Adolescence

Tackett, J. L., Reardon, K. W., Fast, N. J., Johnson, L. U., Kang, S. K., Lang, J. W. B., & Oswald, F. L. (2022) · Perspectives on Psychological Science · doi:10.1177/17456916221118536 · Cited by 40 · see citing works

Are the effects of servant leadership only spurious? The state of research on the causal effects of servant leadership, recommendations, and an illustrative experiment

Schowalter, A. F., & Volmer, J. (2023) · The Leadership Quarterly · doi:10.1016/j.leaqua.2023.101722 · Cited by 38 · see citing works

The Emergence of Value-Based Leadership Behavior at the Frontline of Management: A Role Theory Perspective and Future Research Agenda

Chang, S. M., Budhwar, P. S., & Crawshaw, J. R. (2021) · Frontiers in Psychology · doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.635106 · Cited by 47 · see citing works

Enriching the concept of authentic leadership in project-based organisations through the lens of life-stories and self-identities

Sergeeva, N., & Kortantamer, D. (2021) · International Journal of Project Management · doi:10.1016/j.ijproman.2021.09.001 · Cited by 37 · see citing works

Moral minds: How and when does servant leadership influence employees to benefit multiple stakeholders?

Lemoine, G. J., Hartnell, C. A., Hora, S., & Watts, D. I. (2023) · Personnel Psychology · doi:10.1111/peps.12605 · Cited by 39 · see citing works

Building trust: How leaders can engender feelings of trust among followers

Soderberg, A. T., & Romney, A. C. (2021) · Business Horizons · doi:10.1016/j.bushor.2021.02.031 · Cited by 33 · see citing works

Stranger Leaders: A Theory of Marginal Leaders’ Conception of Learning in Organizations

Petriglieri, G., & Peshkam, A. (2021) · Academy of Management Journal · doi:10.5465/amj.2019.0162 · Cited by 31 · see citing works

Vigor at work mediates the effect of transformational and authentic leadership on engagement

López‐Zafra, E., Pulido‐Martos, M., & Cortés-Denia, D. (2022) · Scientific Reports · doi:10.1038/s41598-022-20742-2 · Cited by 39 · see citing works

Empowering leadership, employee organizational commitment and organizational citizenship behavior: the roles of leader authenticity and trust

Raziq, M. M., Wazir, R., Memon, M. A., Rice, J., & Moazzam, M. (2024) · International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management · doi:10.1108/ijppm-09-2023-0489 · Cited by 32 · see citing works

The Impact of the Economic Corridor on Economic Stability: A Double Mediating Role of Environmental Sustainability and Sustainable Development Under the Exceptional Circumstances of COVID-19

Li, H., Hameed, J., Khuhro, R. A., Albasher, G. I., Al-Qahtani, W. S., Sadiq, M. W., & Wu, T. (2021) · Frontiers in Psychology · doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2020.634375 · Cited by 31 · see citing works

Leadership Emergence: Answering the “How” and “Why” Questions by Considering Levels of Analysis and Form of Emergence

Gardner, W. L., Hanna, A. A., Noghani, F., & Cogliser, C. C. (2023) · Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior · doi:10.1146/annurev-orgpsych-110721-040430 · Cited by 34 · see citing works

The narcissistic appeal of leadership theories.

Steffens, N. K., Chong, M. S. P., & Haslam, S. A. (2020) · American Psychologist · doi:10.1037/amp0000738 · Cited by 30 · see citing works

The relationship between managers' narcissism and overconfidence on corporate risk-taking

Salehi, M., Naeini, A. A. A., & Rouhi, S. (2020) · The TQM Journal · doi:10.1108/tqm-07-2020-0168 · Cited by 29 · see citing works

Are Relationally Transparent Leaders More Receptive to the Relational Transparency of Others? An Authentic Dialog Perspective

Rego, A., Cunha, M. P. E., & Giustiniano, L. (2021) · Journal of Business Ethics · doi:10.1007/s10551-021-04792-6 · Cited by 32 · see citing works

The relationship between leader support, staff influence over decision making, work pressure and patient satisfaction: a cross-sectional analysis of NHS datasets in England

West, T. H. R., Daher, P., Dawson, J. F., Lyubovnikova, J., Buttigieg, S. C., & West, M. A. (2022) · BMJ Open · doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2021-052778 · Cited by 27 · see citing works

Authentic leadership, person-organization fit and collectivistic orientation: a moderated-mediated model of workplace safety

Liu, S., Chu, F., Guo, M., & Liu, Y. (2021) · Leadership & Organization Development Journal · doi:10.1108/lodj-03-2020-0080 · Cited by 27 · see citing works

Practical wisdom: A virtue for leaders. Bringing together Aquinas and Authentic Leadership

Ferrero, I., Rocchi, M., Pellegrini, M. M., & Reichert, E. (2020) · Business Ethics A European Review · doi:10.1111/beer.12298 · Cited by 28 · see citing works

The problem of demand effects in power studies: Moving beyond power priming

Khademi, M., Mast, M. S., Zehnder, C., & Priest, O. D. S. (2021) · The Leadership Quarterly · doi:10.1016/j.leaqua.2021.101496 · Cited by 26 · see citing works

How to enhance workplace climate through telework communication approaches in organization during the era of changes? Evidences of authentic leaders

Yang, Y., & Lin, W.-S. (2022) · Asia Pacific Management Review · doi:10.1016/j.apmrv.2022.07.002 · Cited by 24 · see citing works

Developing oneself to serve others? Servant leadership practices of mindfulness-trained leaders

Urrila, L. I., & Eva, N. (2024) · Journal of Business Research · doi:10.1016/j.jbusres.2024.114858 · Cited by 28 · see citing works

‘Let’s get real’ … when we lead: A systematic review, critical assessment, and agenda for authentic leadership theory and research

Gardner, W. L., Karam, E. P., Noghani, F., Cogliser, C. C., Gullifor, D. P., Mhatre, K. H., Ge, S., Bi, R., Yan, Z., & Dahunsi, D. (2024) · Journal of Management & Organization · doi:10.1017/jmo.2024.68 · Cited by 25 · see citing works

LİDERLİK TARZLARININ BİBLİYOMETRİK ANALİZİ

Doğan, S., Doğan, T., & Aykan, E. (2021) · Erciyes Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi · doi:10.48070/erusosbilder.875279 · Cited by 23 · see citing works

In search of performance-oriented leadership behaviours in the Ghanaian financial service sector: the role of knowledge sharing

Kyei-Frimpong, M., Adu, I. N., Suleman, A.-R., & Boakye, K. O. (2022) · Journal of Work-Applied Management · doi:10.1108/jwam-01-2022-0001 · Cited by 23 · see citing works

Linking Spiritual Leadership with Other Leadership Concepts: A Literature Review of Four Decades

Samul, J. (2024) · SAGE Open · doi:10.1177/21582440241252402 · Cited by 38 · see citing works

In the Service of the Prince: A Meta‐Analytic Review of Machiavellian Leadership

Marbut, A. R., Harms, P. D., & Credé, M. (2025) · Journal of Organizational Behavior · doi:10.1002/job.2877 · Cited by 22 · see citing works

Moderating effect of environmental dynamism on leadership practices and employees’ response to change in South Africa

Surty, S., & Scheepers, C. B. (2020) · Management Research Review · doi:10.1108/mrr-03-2019-0094 · Cited by 24 · see citing works

Exemplifying “Us”: Integrating social identity theory of leadership with cognitive models of categorization

Sewell, D. K., Ballard, T., & Steffens, N. K. (2021) · The Leadership Quarterly · doi:10.1016/j.leaqua.2021.101517 · Cited by 22 · see citing works

The development and practice of authentic leadership: a cultural lens

Williams, E. N., Grande, S. E., Nakamura, Y. T., Pyle, L. K., & Shaw, G. C. (2021) · European journal of training and development · doi:10.1108/ejtd-03-2021-0039 · Cited by 24 · see citing works

A critical review of relationship quality measures: Is a fresh start needed? An agenda to move forward

Gottfredson, R. K., Wright, S., & Heaphy, E. D. (2022) · Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology · doi:10.1111/joop.12395 · Cited by 22 · see citing works

Fueling the Creative Spark: How Authentic Leadership and LMX Foster Employees’ Proactive Orientation and Creativity

Sumanth, J. J., Černe, M., Hannah, S. T., & Škerlavaj, M. (2023) · Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies · doi:10.1177/15480518231180064 · Cited by 25 · see citing works

A time to act and a time for restraint: Everyday sensegiving in the context of paradox

Benbenisty, Y., & Luria, G. (2021) · Journal of Organizational Behavior · doi:10.1002/job.2537 · Cited by 21 · see citing works

Authentic Leadership, Organizational Identification and Citizenship Behavior in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Countries

Qureshi, T. M. (2020) · Academy of strategic management journal/Academy of Strategic Management journal · Cited by 20 · see citing works

Exploring the Impact of Authentic Leadership and Work Engagement on Turnover Intention The Moderating Role of Job Satisfaction and Organizational Size

Arokiasamy, A. R. A., Rizaldy, H., & Qiu, R. (2022) · Advances in Decision Sciences · doi:10.47654/v26y2022i2p26-47 · Cited by 21 · see citing works

Feeling “holier than thou”: exploring the critical nexus between project governance, exploitative leadership and multi-dimensional success in ICT projects

Zaman, U., Damij, N., Khaliq, A., Nawaz, M. S., & Pradana, M. (2022) · International Journal of Managing Projects in Business · doi:10.1108/ijmpb-11-2021-0294 · Cited by 20 · see citing works

Actions are authentic, but are leaders? A reconceptualization of authenticity and leadership practice

Helmuth, C. A., Cole, M. S., & Vendette, S. (2023) · Journal of Organizational Behavior · doi:10.1002/job.2723 · Cited by 26 · see citing works

The tone at the top: a trickle-down model of how manager anger relates to employee moral behaviour

Stollberger, J., Bosch, M. J., Heras, M. L., Rofcanın, Y., & Daher, P. (2020) · European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology · doi:10.1080/1359432x.2020.1804876 · Cited by 19 · see citing works

Docility, Obedience and Discipline: Towards Dirtier Leadership Studies?

Alvehus, J. (2021) · Journal of Change Management · doi:10.1080/14697017.2021.1861696 · Cited by 20 · see citing works

Towards a Model of Leader Character Development: Insights From Anatomy and Music Therapy

Crossan, M. M., Ellis, C., & Crossan, C. (2021) · Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies · doi:10.1177/15480518211005455 · Cited by 21 · see citing works

Organizational learning through character-based judgment

Crossan, M. M., Nguyen, B., Sturm, R. E., Vera, D. M., Pardo, A. C. R., & Maurer, C. C. (2022) · Management Learning · doi:10.1177/13505076221100918 · Cited by 19 · see citing works

How authentic leadership affects green creativity: the role of self-reflection and psychological capital

Wang, Z., Guan, C., & Cai, S. (2022) · Chinese Management Studies · doi:10.1108/cms-10-2021-0437 · Cited by 19 · see citing works

The gaslighting of authentic leadership 2.0

Alvesson, M. G., & Einola, K. (2022) · Leadership · doi:10.1177/17427150221125271 · Cited by 23 · see citing works

Authentic leadership – for better and for worse? Leader well-being and inconsistency as moderating factors in the relation between daily authentic leadership and follower well-being

Macamo, A., & Klasmeier, K. N. (2024) · European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology · doi:10.1080/1359432x.2024.2361511 · Cited by 20 · see citing works

Friend or fiend? An interpretative phenomenological analysis of moral and relational orientation in authentic leadership

Bradley-Cole, K. (2021) · Leadership · doi:10.1177/17427150211016163 · Cited by 20 · see citing works

Chameleon Leadership and Innovative Behavior in the Health Sector: The Mediation Role of Job Security

Durrah, O., & Kahwaji, A. T. (2022) · Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal · doi:10.1007/s10672-022-09414-5 · Cited by 24 · see citing works

The interplay of servant leadership behaviors and Machiavellianism on perceived leader effectiveness: the role of team conflict management

Xiu, L., Lv, F., & van Dierendonck, D. (2023) · European Journal of Management and Business Economics · doi:10.1108/ejmbe-09-2022-0281 · Cited by 21 · see citing works

Supporting innovating employees: how managerial coaching affects four dimensions of innovative work behavior

Pajuoja, M., Viitala, R. L., & Henttonen, K. (2025) · Review of Managerial Science · doi:10.1007/s11846-025-00837-6 · Cited by 17 · see citing works

Effects of emerging leadership styles on engagement – a mediation analysis in a military context

Moreno, A. R., Bravo, M. I. R., García-Guiu, C., Fernández, L. M. L., Extremera, N., Navarro‐Carrillo, G., & Valor‐Segura, I. (2021) · Leadership & Organization Development Journal · doi:10.1108/lodj-05-2020-0222 · Cited by 19 · see citing works

Crisis Leadership: Political Leadership during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Samad, A., Jerjawi, K. A., & Dadich, A. (2022) · Sustainability · doi:10.3390/su15010266 · Cited by 17 · see citing works

Authentic Leadership’s Impact on Follower Psychological Capital and Performance Through Organizational Identification and Role Clarity

Johnson, H. H., Bluhm, D. J., Hannah, S. T., Avolio, B. J., & Lester, P. B. (2023) · Human Performance · doi:10.1080/08959285.2023.2261002 · Cited by 17 · see citing works

A new study on the flaws in positive leadership research

(2024) · Dean and Provost · doi:10.1002/dap.31385

A Critical Review of the Concept of Authentic Leadership

Min, D., & Jung, D.-I. (2022) · Korean Academy of Management · doi:10.26856/kjom.2022.30.4.129

‘Let’s get real’ … when we lead: A systematic review, critical assessment, and agenda for authentic leadership theory and research

Gardner, W. L., Karam, E. P., Noghani, F., Cogliser, C. C., Gullifor, D. P., Mhatre, K. H., Ge, S., Bi, R., Yan, Z., & Dahunsi, D. (2024) · Journal of Management & Organization · doi:10.1017/jmo.2024.68 · Cited by 25 · see citing works

Authentic Leadership: Rediscovering What it Means to be Authentic

Vendette, S., Helmuth, C. A., & Intindola, M. L. (2020) · Academy of Management Proceedings · doi:10.5465/ambpp.2020.18557abstract

Authentic leadership theory: The case for and against

Gardner, W. L., Karam, E. P., Alvesson, M. G., & Einola, K. (2021) · The Leadership Quarterly · doi:10.1016/j.leaqua.2021.101495 · Cited by 267 · see citing works