A Social Identity Theory of Leadership
@article{Hogg2001ASI,
title={A Social Identity Theory of Leadership},
author={Michael A. Hogg},
journal={Personality and Social Psychology Review},
year={2001},
volume={5},
pages={184 - 200},
url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:10553522}
}A social identity theory of leadership is described that views leadership as a group process generated by social categorization and prototype-based depersonalization processes associated with social identity. Group identification, as self-categorization, constructs an intragroup prototypicality gradient that invests the most prototypical member with the appearance of having influence; the appearance arises because members cognitively and behaviorally conform to the prototype. The appearance of…
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