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LEADERSHIP THROUGH AN ORGANIZATION BEHAVIOR LENS

A Look at the Last Half-Century of Research

Mary Ann Glynn and Rich DeJordy

LEADERSHIP IS one of the most enduring—and elusive—constructs in the organizational behavior (OB) literature; as Bass (1990:3) puts it, leadership is “one of the world’s oldest preoccupations.” Articles on leadership appeared in the early pages of major organizational behavior journals in midcentury, including Administrative Science Quarterly and the Journal of the Academy of Management, which later evolved to become the Academy of Management Journal, and the Academy of Management Review. Today, interest in leadership research remains keen. The Harvard Business Review alone has published nearly 500 articles since 1923 ...

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