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Charisma: New frontiers - A special issue dedicated to the memory of Boas Shamir

  • 1.  Charisma: New frontiers - A special issue dedicated to the memory of Boas Shamir

    Posted 01-28-2015 13:47
    Dear colleagues:

    Because of the untimely passing away of Boas Shamir, the special issue he and I were to edit will now be edited with Bill Gardner at TTU. Please note that this call has been amended in two ways: First, it will be dedicated to the memory of Boas Shamir (thus work that extends Boas's contributions is particularly welcomed). Second the special issue call has been extended by six months (the submission deadline is now 30 October 2015).

    The call is posted here:

    http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2015.01.002

    and

    http://www.journals.elsevier.com/the-leadership-quarterly/call-for-papers/special-issue-charisma-new-frontiers/

    Here is the full call too for your convenience:

    Charisma: New frontiers - A special issue dedicated to the memory of Boas Shamir
    This special issue call was originally made by John Antonakis and Boas Shamir. The leadership community, however, was devastated to hear of the passing away of Boas Shamir on 8 November 2014. After consultations with the senior editor, William L. Gardner has graciously accepted an invitation to co-edit this special issue. The call remains largely the same, with two small amendments: First, work that extends Boas's contribution to the leadership field will be particularly welcomed. Doing so does not change by much the nature of the special issue call given Boas's important impact on the study of charisma (e.g., Berson, Shamir, Avolio, & Popper, 2001; House & Shamir, 1993; Shamir, 1992, 1995, 1999; Shamir, Arthur, & House, 1994; Shamir & Howell, 1999) and the overlap of much of his work with the call's focus. Second, we will extend the special issue call by six months to give the community more time to consider making a contribution to what is going to be a very special, special issue!

    As we had noted in the previous call, 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 charisma has broadened in many ways, for instance, by identifying the influenc-ing techniques of charismatic leaders (Den Hartog & Verburg, 1997; Gardner & Avolio, 1998), investigating its impact in consequential settings (Emrich, Brower, Feldman, & Garland, 2001; House et al., 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 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) affects outcomes when using objective performance outcomes
    *determining which individual-difference factors of followers enhance 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 as well as other temporal effects
    *delineating ways to train and develop charisma

    The initial submission deadline is 30 October 2015, via the Elsevier submission portal:
    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.
    Berson, Y., Shamir, B., Avolio, B. J., & Popper, M. (2001). The relationship between vision strength, leadership style, and context. The Leadership Quarterly, 12, 53�73. 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.
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    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 a nd profitability under conditions of perceived environmental uncertainty. Academy of Management Journal, 1(44), 134�143.
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    John Antonakis
    Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Lausanne, Switzerland Corresponding author at: Faculty of Business and Economics, Internef #618, CH-1015 Lausanne-Dorigny, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
    E-mail address: John.Antonakis@unil.ch

    William L. Gardner
    Institute for Leadership Research, Rawls College of Business, TX Tech University, United States

    Please distribute to interested parties.

    Regards,
    John Antonakis & Bill Gardner
    Associate Editors, The Leadership Quarterly

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