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Leadership: Current Theories, Research, and
Future Directions
Bruce Avolio
University of Nebraska - Lincoln, bavolio@u.washington.edu
Fred Walumbwa
Arizona State University, fred.walumbwa@asu.edu
Todd J. Weber
University of Nebraska - Lincoln, tweber2@unl.edu
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Avolio, Bruce; Walumbwa, Fred; and Weber, Todd J., "Leadership: Current Theories, Research, and Future Directions" (2009).
Management Department Faculty Publications. Paper 37.
http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/managementfacpub/37
Published in Annual Review of Psychology 60 (2009), pp. 421-449;
doi: 10.1146/annurev.psych.60.110707.163621 Copyright © 2009 by Annual Reviews.
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Leadership: Current Theories, Research, and
Future Directions
Bruce J. Avolio,1 Fred O. Walumbwa,2 and Todd J. Weber 3
1 Department of Management, University of Nebraska–Lincoln,
Lincoln, NE 68588-0491; email: bavolio2@unl.edu
2 Department of Management, The Arizona State University,
Glendale, Arizona 85306-4908; email: fred.walumbwa@asu.edu
3 Department of Management, University of Nebraska–Lincoln,
Lincoln, NE 68588-0491; email: tweber2@unl.edu
Abstract
This review examines recent theoretical and empirical developments in the leadership literature,
beginning with topics that are currently receiving attention in terms of research, theory, and
practice. We begin by...
