Purpose – This paper aims to analyze the leadership role of first‐line managers in self‐managed production units … leadership development programme. The sample consisted of 38 lower‐level managers in a typical manufacturing plant in Germany … difficulties with their new leadership‐related tasks. Higher levels of leadership competence are found to be associated with better …

In this paper we model the interaction between leaders, their followers and crowd followers in a coordination game with … risk dominant actions in the population. The existence of leaders and their followers, plus the local interaction, which … followership shows that leader followership can also be locally stable around Pareto dominant leaders. The paper answers the …