Dear colleagues:

Boas Shamir and I are editing a special issue on charisma in The Leadership Quarterly. The call is posted here:

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2014.07.003

Here is the full call too for your convenience:

Guest Edited by
John Antonakis¹, Boas Shamir²

¹Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
²Department of Sociology and Anthropology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Much has been written on the topic of charisma since House (1977) introduced it to the field of organization studies. Neocharismatic approaches, as applied to organizational settings have flourished (Bryman, 1992; House, 1999). Our understanding of it has broadened in many ways, for instance, by identifying influencing techniques of charismatic leaders (Den Hartog & Verburg, 1997; Gardner & Avolio, 1998), investigating its impact in consequential settings (Emrich, Brower, Feldman, & Garland, 2001; House, Spangler, & Woycke, 1991), linking it to identity (Shamir, House, & Arthur, 1993) and attribution processes (Conger & Kanungo, 1998), identifying its boundary conditions (Jacquart & Antonakis, 2014; Shamir & Howell, 1999; Waldman, Ramirez, House, & Puranam, 2001), and whether it can be trained (Antonakis, Fenley, & Liechti, 2011; Frese, Beimel, & Schoenborn, 2003; Towler, 2003). However, there are still many unanswered questions about this difficult-to-study construct as well as some criticisms about the way it has been conceptualized (van Knippenberg & Sitkin, 2013; Yukl, 1999). We intend to publish theoretical and empirical manuscripts that will advance our understanding of what charisma is; the topics addressed must be groundbreaking and extend current knowledge frontiers. The call is about charisma per se and not about transformational leadership or related approaches. Topics that we will consider include, but are not limited to:

• proposing theoretical expositions of charisma as set in a social network
• conceptualizing charisma in terms of a property of a group
• exploring hybrid theories and process models of charismatic leadership
• critically analyzing current conceptualizations and measurements of charisma
• linking charisma to theories that embrace follower-centric views of leadership
• investigating how configurations of charismatic influence and influencing tactics impact observer information processing or outcomes
• identifying how verbal and non-verbal charismatic influencing tactics affect outcomes in different communication media
• determining how "third variables" (e.g., looks, performance cues, organizational context) interact with or directly impact ratings of charisma or its outcomes
• identifying moderators of charisma, in terms of prototypical expectations of leaders due to national culture, organizational type, environmental uncertainty, and so forth
• examining physiological (e.g., from a neuroscientific, endocrinological) correlates of leader charisma both from a leader and observer perspective
• viewing charisma from non-traditional disciplines (e.g., evolutionary game theory, economics)
• demonstrating if charisma per se, as compared to other motivational mechanisms (e.g., incentives) affect outcomes when using objective performance outcomes
• determining which individual-difference factors of followers enhances their receptivity to charisma
• exploring how followers and inter-follower processes produce the phenomenon of charisma
• identifying individual-difference predictors (e.g., personality, intelligence) of charisma
• examining the links between charisma and ethics
• understanding how charisma erodes and other temporal effects
• delineating ways to train and develop charisma

The initial submission deadline is 30 April 2015, via the Elsevier submission site http://ees.elsevier.com/leaqua/  choosing SI: Charisma: New frontiers as the article type.

References:
Antonakis, J., Fenley, M., & Liechti, S. (2011). Can Charisma Be Taught? Tests of Two Interventions. The Academy of Management Learning and Education, 10(3), 374-396.

Bryman, A. (1992). Charisma and leadership in organizations. London: Sage Publications.

Conger, J. A., & Kanungo, R. N. (1998). Charismatic leadership in organizations. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Den Hartog, D. N., & Verburg, R. M. (1997). Charisma and rhetoric: Communicative techniques of international business leaders. The Leadership Quarterly, 8(4), 355-391.

Emrich, C. G., Brower, H. H., Feldman, J. M., & Garland, H. (2001). Images in words: Presidential rhetoric, charisma, and greatness. Administrative Science Quarterly, 46(3), 527-557.

Frese, M., Beimel, S., & Schoenborn, S. (2003). Action training for charismatic leadership: Two evaluations of studies of a commercial training module on inspirational communication of a vision. Personnel Psychology, 56, 671-697.

Gardner, W. L., & Avolio, B. J. (1998). The charismatic relationship: A dramaturgical perspective. Academy of Management Review, 23(1), 32-58.

House, R. J. (1999). Weber and the Neo-charismatic Leadership Paradigm: A Response to Beyer. The Leadership Quarterly, 10(4), 563-574.

House, R. J., Spangler, W. D., & Woycke, J. (1991). Personality and charisma and the U.S. presidency: A psychological theory of leader effectiveness. Administrative Science Quarterly, 36, 364-396.

Jacquart, P., & Antonakis, J. (2014). When does charisma matter for top-level leaders? Effect of attributional ambiguity. Academy of Management Journal, http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/amj.2012.0831.

Shamir, B., House, R. J., & Arthur, M. B. (1993). The motivational effects of charismatic leadership: A self-concept based theory. Organization Science, 4(4), 577-594.

Shamir, B., & Howell, J. M. (1999). Organizational and contextual influences on the emergence and effectiveness of charismatic leadership. The Leadership Quarterly, 10(2), 257-283.

Towler, A. J. (2003). Effects of charismatic influence training on attitudes, behavior, and performance. Personnel psychology, 56(2), 363 - 381.

van Knippenberg, D., & Sitkin, S. B. (2013). A Critical Assessment of Charismatic-Transformational Leadership Research: Back to the Drawing Board? The Academy of Management Annals, 7(1), 1-60.

Waldman, D. A., Ramirez, G. G., House, R. J., & Puranam, P. (2001). Does leadership matter? CEO leadership attributes and profitability under conditions of perceived environmental uncertainty. Academy of Management Journal, 1(44), 134-143.

Yukl, G. A. (1999). An evaluation of conceptual weaknesses in transformational and charismatic leadership theories. The Leadership Quarterly, 10(2), 285-305.

Please distribute to interested parties.

Regards,
John Antonakis & Boas Shamir
John Antonakis

Professor of Organizational Behavior

Director, Ph.D. Program in Management

Faculty of Business and Economics (HEC)

University of Lausanne

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The Leadership Quarterly

Organizational Research Methods 

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