Magic, Meaning and Leadership: Weber’s Model and the Empirical Literature
将韦伯的魅力型领导模型与当代实证研究联系起来，阐明领导力如何挑战现状、激发追随者并最终建立新秩序，对组织行为研究者有参考价值。
Weber’s (1946) model of charismatic leadership offers a framework within which more recent theories and findings can be shown to have a place. The process he described begins as a challenge to an existing status quo and paves the way for another. The charismatic leader elicits a willing response from followers, who begin in the faith that they are pursuing purposes greater than their own but lay the foundations of a new status quo when they seek to legitimate their positions of power. Empirical theories and findings elucidate the stages of this process. The initial status quo, leader dependence upon the support of followers, attributions of charisma and the importance of follower feelings have been described under the headings of substitutes for leadership, leader traits and behavior, implicit leadership and transformational leadership. Leader-member exchange (LMX) and strategic contingencies theory describes the appearance of an administrative staff and tendencies toward a new status quo. Descriptions of organizational development bear similarities to Weber’s model and suggest opportunities for empirical research.