Dear colleagues,
I've included below (in no particular order) a comprehensive list of the articles that several of you referred me to when I asked for recommendations for MBA-appropriate material that summarizes leadership theories. Thank you all for your help.
Sincerely,
Christina
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Kotter, John P. (1990). What leaders really do. Harvard Business Review, May/June: 103-111.
Goleman, D. 2000. Leadership that gets results. Harvard Business Review, March, 4-17.
Heifetz, R.A., & Laurie, D.L. 1997. The work of leadership. Harvard Business Review, January, 124-134.
Yukl, G. 1989. Managerial leadership: A review of theory and research. Journal of Management, 15, 251-289.
Winston, B. E., & Patterson, K. (2006). An integrated definition of leadership. International Journal of Leadership Studies, 1(2), 6-66.
Clegg, S. R., Kornberger, M., and Pitsis, T. S. (2012) Managing and Organization: An Introduction to Theory and Practice. Sage: Thous.Oaks, Cal
Day D. V. & Antonakis J. (2012). Leadership: Past, present, and future. In Day D. V. & Antonakis J. (Eds.), The nature of leadership (2nd, pp. 3-25). Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.http://my.unil.ch/serval/document/BIB_E24FFBFEBE58.pdf
Antonakis, J. (2010) Transformational and Charismatic Leadership. In Day, D. V., & J. Antonakis (Eds.). The nature of leadership, 2nd Edition (pp. 256-288). Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.
http://www.sagepub.com/upm-data/41402_Antonakis_Transformational_and_Charismatic_Leadership_in_the_nature_of_leadership2.pdf
Hogan, R. and Kaiser, R.B. 2005. What we know about leadership. Review of general psychology, 9(2):169-180
Kaiser, Robert B.; Hogan, Robert; Craig, S. Bartholomew; American Psychologist, Vol 63(2), Feb-Mar, 2008. pp. 96-110.
House, R.J. and Aditya, R.N. (1997). The Social Scientific Study of Leadership: Quo Vadis? Journal of Management, 23(3): 409-73.
House, R.J., Wright, N. & Aditya, R.N. (1997). Cross Cultural Research on Organizational Leadership: A Critical Analysis and a Proposed Theory. In P.C. Earley & M. Erez (Eds.). New Perspectives on International Industrial and Organizational Psychology. San Francisco, CA, USA: Jossey-Bass.
Hernandez, M., Eberly, M. B., Avolio, B. J. & Johnson, M. D. (2011). The loci and mechanisms of leadership: Exploring a more comprehensive view of leadership theory. The Leadership Quarterly, 22, 1165-1185.
Hiller, N. J., DeChurch, L. A., Murase, T., Doty, D. (2011). Searching for outcomes of leadership: A 25-year review. Journal of Management, 37, 1137-1177.
Avolio, B. J., Reichard, R. J., Hannah, S., Walumbwa, F. O., & Chan, A. (2009). A meta-analytic review of leadership impact research: Experimental and quasi-experimental studies. The Leadership Quarterly, 20, 764-784.
Avolio, B. J., Walumbwa, F. O., & Weber, T. J. (2009). Leadership: Current theories, research, and future directions. Annual Review of Psychology, 60, 421ñ449.
The Anand et al (2011) and other articles from the Sage Handbook of Leadership: http://www.uk.sagepub.com/books/Book233409/toc#tabview=toc