LEADERSHIP AND FOLLOWERSHIP. AN EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE

Sergiu BÃLAN and Lucia Ovidia Vreja

Proceedings of the INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE, 2019, vol. 13, issue 1, 1185-1197

Abstract: The paper presents extensively, from a theoretical point of view, the concepts of leader and follower and their extensions, leadership and followership, as well as the role of leaders and followers in crowd coordination and common action. The main approach of the concepts is that of evolutionary psychology, as this theoretical framework indicate that both leadership and followership are evolutionary adaptations, their properties and characteristics being also found among other species of animals that manifest sociality. The attempt to pinpoint the evolutionary origin of both leadership and followership, and the common features that animals and humans share in terms of leaders and followers is a necessary undertaking for explaining leadership in organizations and, possibly, in improving the quality of leadership.

Keywords: adaptation; environmental mismatch; evolutionary psychology; followership; leadership; sociality. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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