Abstract Mehrere aktuell diskutierte Theorien erfolgreicher Führung werden gegenwärtig hinsichtlich kontextualer Einschränkungen kritisch hinterfragt und aufgrund empirischer Ergebnisse präzisiert. Jedoch erfolgt diese kontextfokussierte Forschung selten theoriegeleitet, da in der...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to test the theoretical proposition, put forward by Yukl et al. (2002), that the leadership constructs of transformational and transactional leadership, laissez-faire, consideration, and initiating structure can be arranged into three meta-categories of...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a comprehensive examination of different leadership constructs investigated extensively, namely transformational and transactional leadership, laissez-faire, consideration, and initiating structure, as well as leader-member-exchange. The...

Purpose – The aim of this study is to contribute to the construct validity of leadership styles. Although several theories of leadership emerged in the past decades, integrative research on leadership constructs is rare. Thus, for the first time, the present study critically tests whether the...