TY  - JOUR
A1  - Buss, Martin
A1  - Kearney, Eric
A1  - Noureen, Riffat
A1  - Gandhi, Nilima
T1  - Antecedents and effects of visionary leadership
T2  - Journal of leadership & organizational studies
N2  - Scholars have argued that visionary leadership is an effective tool to motivate followers because it provides them with meaning and purpose. However, previous research tells us little about which leaders and under which circumstances leaders engage in visionary leadership. We draw on theories of human and social capital to argue that leader work centrality is an important antecedent of visionary leadership, and especially so for leaders with low organizational tenure. Moreover, we propose that visionary leadership then provides followers with meaningfulness and thereby decreases their turnover intentions. Our predictions were confirmed by data from a two-wave, lagged-design field study with 101 leader-follower dyads. Overall, our research identifies an important antecedent of visionary leadership, a specific situation in which this antecedent is particularly important, and provides empirical evidence for why visionary leadership can bind followers to an organization.
KW  - visionary leadership
KW  - leader work centrality
KW  - leader organizational tenure
KW  - follower meaningfulness
KW  - follower turnover intentions
Y1  - 2023
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/62815
SN  - 1548-0518
SN  - 1939-7089
VL  - 30
IS  - 4
SP  - 413
EP  - 427
PB  - Sage
CY  - Thousand Oaks, Calif.
ER  -