Abstract offers a comprehensive description of the development and validation of
transformational leadership theory/in response to criticisms of the conceptualization …

Transformational Leadership, Second Edition is intended for both the scholars and serious
students of leadership. It is a comprehensive review of theorizing and empirical research …

The aim of this chapter is to offer a synthesis of current research-based knowledge about top-
level leadership. The author includes in this review most of the major approaches to …

State University of New York, Binghamton hesearch continues for understanding what
contributes to a leader being more transfor-mational in outlook and behavior and what …

Transformational leadership was introduced by James MacGregor Burns in 1978. This new
paradigm described the leader and follower interaction as a mutually elevating process …

Provides an overview of research on transformational and charismatic leadership. A matrix
is prepared that summarized the major focus and bridged topics or crosscutting themes …

Collectively, these three short quotations capture some of the key characteristics of
transformational leadership, a form of leadership argued by some (Simic, 1998) to match the …

This study identified aspects of transformational leadership theory that have resulted in a
lack of empirical support for the hypothesized factor structure of the model, and very strong …

BACKGROUND Bernard Bass was born (in 1925) and grew up in New York City, attending
the College of the City of New York for several years before a stint in the Air Force …

The large and growing literature dealing with leadership has not led to an obvious increase
in either the quantity or quality of leaders, particularly transformational leaders. My cursory …