Charisma: New frontiers

摘要

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 influencing techniques of charismatic leaders (Den Hartog & Verburg, 1997; Gardner & Avolio, 1998), investigating its impact in consequential settings (Emrich, Brower, Feldman, & Garland, 2001; House, Spangler, & Woycke, 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: 1. proposing theoretical expositions of charisma as set in a social network 2. conceptualizing charisma in terms of a property of a group 3. exploring hybrid theories and process models of charismatic leadership 4. critically analyzing current conceptualizations and measurements of charisma 5. linking charisma to theories that embrace follower-centric views of leadership 6. investigating how configurations of charismatic influencing tactics impact observer information processing or outcomes 7. identifying how verbal and non-verbal charismatic influencing tactics affect outcomes in different communication media 8. determining how "third variables" (e.g., looks, performance cues, organizational context) interact with or directly impact ratings of charisma or its outcomes 9. identifying moderators of charisma, in terms of prototypical expectations of leaders due to national culture, organizational type, environmental uncertainty, and so forth 10. examining physiological (e.g., from a neuroscientific, endocrinological) correlates of leader charisma both from a leader and observer perspective 11. viewing charisma from non-traditional disciplines (e.g., evolutionary game theory, economics) 12. demonstrating if charisma per se, as compared to other motivational mechanisms (e.g., incentives) affect outcomes when using objective performance outcomes 13. determining which individual-difference factors of followers enhances their receptivity to charisma 14. exploring how followers and inter-follower processes produce the phenomenon of charisma 15. identifying individual-difference predictors (e.g., personality, intelligence) of charisma 16. examining the links between charisma and ethics 17. understanding how charisma erodes as well as other temporal effects 18. delineating ways to train and develop charisma.