The Leadership Quarterly Special Issue on Leadership, Self, and Identity

Abstract

The Leadership Quarterly will publish a special issue on Leadership, Self, and Identity. The intent of this special issue is to examine the role of self and identity in leadership effectiveness. Topics that might be relevant to this special issue include follower self-conception and identity as a mediator of the effects of leadership, follower self-conception and identity as a moderator of the impact of leader behavior, and the influence of leadership on follower self-concept as an outcome in itself. Variables that could be relevant in this context include, but are not limited to, self-construal, self-categorization, identification, social identity salience, prototypicality, self-efficacy, collective efficacy, self-esteem, self-determination, self-regulation, and self-consistency. Both empirical and theoretical analyses will be considered for publication in the special issue, although the preference will be given to empirical research. Empirical contributions may concern studies in organizational, political, or other field settings, as well as laboratory experiments. It is anticipated that this special issue will be published in April 2005 with an additional issue being published if a sufficient number of high quality manuscripts are obtained. Both regular manuscripts (between 30 and 45 text pages plus references, tables and figures in length) and research reports (17 text pages plus references, tables and figures maximum) will be considered for publication. All manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with the American Psychological Association format. Due date: Submissions should be received by the 1st of August 2004. Special Issue Editors: The editors for the special issue on Leadership, Self, and Identity are Dr. Barbara van Knippenberg (Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands), Dr. David de Cremer (Maastricht University, The Netherlands), Dr. Daan van Knippenberg (Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands), and Dr. Michael A. Hogg (University of Queensland, Australia). Submissions should preferably be sent electronically, either in Word for Windows format or PDF, to BM.van.Knippenberg@psy.vu.nl. Alternatively, submissions should be sent in quadruplicate (4) along with a diskette copy of the manuscript (in Word for Windows format or PDF) to Dr. Barbara van Knippenberg, Department of Work and Organizational Psychology, Vrije Universiteit, van der Boechorstlaan 1, 1081 BT Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Questions about this special issue, expectations, requirements, and the