Despite the significant amount of existing research examining the relationship of follower-
related factors with leadership outcomes, there is no systematic, critical review that …

Because of the overlap between the social roles of women and followers, we predicted that
people would show a bias, that is, favor female followers over male followers. To support this …

The objective of this conceptual article is to illustrate how differences in societal culture may
affect employees' proactive work behaviors (PWBs) and to develop a research agenda to …

Conventional approaches to leadership in sport management regard leadership as a leader-
centric phenomenon. Recent advances in the generic leadership literature have highlighted …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the structure, implicit attitude and
consequences of followers' implicit followership theories in the Chinese cultural context …

We applied the social evaluation framework to investigate the traits desired in an “ideal”
follower, which were compared to the traits desired in an “ideal” leader. Across three studies …

We explored the relationship between positive leaders' implicit followership theory (LIFT)
and employees' career success using cognitive information processing theory and social …

Implicit leadership theories (ILTs) matter because they are used as the benchmark against
which people determine who is a leader and who is not. This assessment informs their …

In this study, we integrate follower categorization theory with affective events theory (AET) to
investigate the extent to which within-person patterns of implicit followership theories (IFTs) …

Under turbulent, boundaryless, and Internet age, the characteristics of career sustainability
development have shifted from the perspective of development within the organization to the …