Theoretical Perspectives of Strategic Followership

<p>The concept of followership like leadership is not new to the extent that it has been around since the beginning of creation. It is so pervasive in human interactions that attempts to study it are often met with ridicule. In the organization literature followership a complementary role to leadership was often ignored until recently when scholars observed that followers have as much a role to play in the leader-follower relationship. Theoretical Perspectives of Strategic Followership focuses on one type of followership – strategic – which is an emergent phenomenon. Similar to leadership followership has been defined as a role process and capacity. Indeed others consider it as socially constructed. In addition to the definitions the relatively sparse literature has identified antecedents outcomes and moderators of followership. </p><p></p><p>The book combines both the macro (strategic management) and micro (psychological) foundations of strategic followership to encourage research not only among strategic management scholars but also those in the micro fields of organizational behaviour human resources management and industrial psychology.</p>