HANDBOOK OF

LEADERSHIP

THEORY AND

PRACTICEAn HBS Centennial Colloquium on

Advancing Leadership

EDITED BY

Nitin NohriaRakesh Khurana

Harvard Business PressBOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS

CONTENTSJ

Acknowledgments xii

SECTION ONE

THE IMPACT OF LEADERSHIP: PERFORMANCE AND MEANING

Chapter 1

Advancing Leadership Theory and PracticeNitin Nohria and Rakesh Khurana (Harvard Business School)

3

Chapter 2

When Does Leadership Matter? A Contingent OpportunitiesView of CEO Leadership

Noam Wdsserman, Bharat Anand, and Nitin Nohria (Harvard Business School)

27

Chapter 3

Revisiting the Meaning of LeadershipJoelM. Podolny (Apple, Inc.), Rakesh Khurana (Harvard Business School), and

Mary a L. Besharov (Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations)

65

Chapter 4

What Is This Thing Called Leadership?J. Richard Hackman (Harvard University)

107

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SECTION TWO

T H E T H E O R Y OF L E A D E R S H I P : P E R S O N A L A T T R I B U T E S ,

F U N C T I O N S , A N D R E L A T I O N S H I P S

Chapters that take stock of different disciplinary perspectives on leadership and

articulate an agenda for future research

Chapter 5

Leadership Through an Organization Behavior Lens: A Look at theLast Half-Century of Research

Mary Ann Glynn and Rich Dejordy (Boston College)

119

Chapter 6

Psychological Perspectives on LeadershipJennifer A. Chatman and Jessica A. Kennedy

(University of California, Berkeley)

159

Chapter 7

A Clinical Approach to the Dynamics of Leadership and ExecutiveTransformation

Manfred Kets de Fries and Elisabet Engellau (INSEAD)

183

Chapter 8

Classical Sociological Approaches to the Study ofLeadership

Mauro E Guillen (Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania)

223

Chapter 9

Economists' Perspectives on LeadershipPatrick Bolton (Columbia University), Markus K. Brunnermeier

(Princeton University), and Laura Veldkamp

(New York University)

239

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Chapter 10

An Economic Perspective on Leadership

Mark A. Zupan (University of Rochester)

265

Chapter 11

Leadership and History

Walter A. Friedman (Harvard Business School)

291

Chapter 12

Power and Leadership

Joseph S. Nye, Jr. (Harvard Kennedy School of Government)

305

SECTION THREE

THE VARIABILITY OF LEADERSHIP: WHAT'S CORE AND

CONTINGENT

Chapters exploring similarities and differences in leadership across task,

culture, and identity

Chapter 13

Leadership and Cultural Context: A Theoretical and Empirical

Examination Based on Project GLOBE

Mansour Javidan (Thunderbird Business School), Peter W. Dorfrnan (New Mexico State

University), Jon Paul Howell (New Mexico State University), and PaulJ. Hanges

(University of Maryland)

335

Chapter 14

Women and Leadership: Defining the Challenges

Robin J. Ely (Harvard Business School) and Deborah L. Rhode (Stanford Law School)

377

Chapter 15

A Contingency Theory of Leadership

Jay Lorsch (Harvard Business School)

411

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SECTION FOUR

THE PRACTICE OF LEADERSHIP: AGENCY AND

CONSTRAINT

Chapters on the multiple facets of leadership practice

Chapter 16

What Is Leadership? The CEO's Role in Large,Complex Organizations

Michael E. Porter and Nitin Nohria (Harvard Business School)

433

Chapter 17

What Makes Teams of Leaders Leadable?Ruth WagemanandJ. Richard Hackman (Harvard University)

475

Chapter18

Decision Making as Leadership FoundationMichael Useem (Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania)

507

Chapter 19

Leading Change: Leadership, Organization, and Social MovementsMarshall Ganz (Harvard Kennedy School of Government)

527

Chapter 20

Leadership in a Globalizing WorldRosabeth Moss Kanter (Harvard Business School)

569

Chapter 21

Unlocking the Slices of Genius in Your Organization: Leadingfor Innovation

Linda A. Hill (Harvard Business School), Maurizio Travaglini (Architects of Group

Genius), GregBrandeau (Pixar Animation Studios), and Emily Stecker

(Harvard Business School)

611

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SECTION FIVE

THE DEVELOPMENT OF LEADERS: KNOWING, DOING,

AND BEING

Chapters on the development of leaders

Chapter 22

Identity-Based Leader DevelopmentHerminia Ibarra (INSEAD), Scott Snook (Harvard Business School),

and Laura Guillen Ramo (INSEAD)

657

Chapter 23

The Experience ConundrumMorgan W.McCall,Jr. (University of Southern California)

679

Chapter 24

Leadership Development Interventions: Ensuring a Returnon the Investment

Jay A. Conger (Claremont McKenna College)

709

Chapter 25

Pursuing Authentic Leadership DevelopmentBruce J. Avolio (University of Washington)

739

Chapter 26

Adult Development and Organizational LeadershipRobert Kegan and Lisa Lahey (Harvard Graduate School of Education)

769

Index 189

About the Contributors 807

About the Editors 821