TY - JOUR
T1 - Top management leadership
T2 - Inside the black box
AU - Hunt, J. G.
AU - Boal, Kimerly B.
AU - Sorenson, Ritch L.
PY - 1990
Y1 - 1990
N2 - Based on leadership categorization theory from the cognitive sciences, a partial model of top management leadership is developed. The model looks inside the leadership black box and considers the personal and organizational consequences of matches and mismatches between three levels (superordinate, basic and subordinate) and two dimensions (substantive/content and symbolic/process) of leadership category prototypes and perceived leadership behaviors. The model also considers the impact of environmental, industry, organizational and personal background variables on the leadership category prototypes. The prototype/behavior match notion is explicated in considerable conceptual and empirical detail to encourage future research and the research implications of the model in general are discussed.
AB - Based on leadership categorization theory from the cognitive sciences, a partial model of top management leadership is developed. The model looks inside the leadership black box and considers the personal and organizational consequences of matches and mismatches between three levels (superordinate, basic and subordinate) and two dimensions (substantive/content and symbolic/process) of leadership category prototypes and perceived leadership behaviors. The model also considers the impact of environmental, industry, organizational and personal background variables on the leadership category prototypes. The prototype/behavior match notion is explicated in considerable conceptual and empirical detail to encourage future research and the research implications of the model in general are discussed.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=38249018105&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/1048-9843(90)90014-9
DO - 10.1016/1048-9843(90)90014-9
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:38249018105
SN - 1048-9843
VL - 1
SP - 41
EP - 65
JO - The Leadership Quarterly
JF - The Leadership Quarterly
IS - 1
ER -