Taking leadership fashions seriously as a vehicle for leadership learning
重新审视领导力时尚，认为它并非只是肤浅的潮流，而是个人和集体领导力学习的重要载体。通过扩展新制度理论并结合韦伯的理性概念与情感理性，解释了领导力时尚如何不断重塑领导力的理性规范与期望，为理解其社会学意义提供了理论基础。
Popularized and commercialized leadership ideas are often criticized as mere fashions that dumb down leadership discourse, research, and learning. By contrast, we take leadership fashions seriously as an important vehicle for individual and collective leadership learning. We extend the neo-institutional theory of management fashions to define leadership fashions as a process that constantly reconfigures the rational norms and expectations attached to leadership, and that elevates certain approaches as the best way to fulfill those norms and expectations. Combining Weber’s broad understanding of rationality with our own concept of affective rationality, we account for the many different instrumental, practical, moral, and sometimes deeply personal and emotional norms and expectations that drive the leadership fashion setting process. This approach contributes a theoretical foundation for understanding the sociological significance of leadership fashions, for exploring the leadership industries that produce and promote them, and for researching further the ways that leadership fashions and the leadership industries influence leadership research, learning, and practice.