Leadership and Power: Identity Processes in Groups and Organizations

Hailing "a new revival of leadership research in social psychology," Van Knippenberg (organizational behavior, Erasmus U., the Netherlands) and Hogg (social psychology, U. of Queensland, Australia) present sixteen papers exploring questions of leadership and power from a common basis in theories of social categorization, social identity, and social roles. Papers address previously under-represented issues in the research such as the relationship between social identity analysis and organizational science theories of leadership. They also discuss the ways the multi-faceted interplay between social identity and leadership behavior. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Michael Hogg is Professor of Psychology and an Australian Research Council Professorial Fellow at the University of Queensland. His research focuses on social identity processes within and between large and small groups, and he has published widely on topics such as intergroup relations, group cohesion, leadership, group motivations, and conformity processes. Professor Hogg is co-editor of the journal Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, an incoming associate editor of the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, and has served on the editorial board of most of the main journals in social psychology. He is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, and of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues.