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Contemporary workplaces

Virtual special issue: Leaders and leadership

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Overall, this body of work provides a comprehensive examination of the multifaceted aspects of leadership, investigating both its empowering potential and its potential toxicity. In particular, the articles below attempt to capture leadership's dual capacity to either foster innovation, resilience, and voice behavior, or the darker side of leadership and its paths to instigate misconduct, toxicity, and exhaustion in the workplace.

The power of leadership

 

Wechtler, H. & Suseno, Y. (2025). The Power of Trust: Supporting innovative work behavior in times of crisis: Change-oriented leadership and the power of trust.

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Suseno, Y. & Wechtler, H. (2024e). Leadership roles and orgnizational citizenship behaviors: The mediating effects of employees' trust and voice in times of crisis.

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Ehrnrooth, M., Koveshnikov, A., and Wechtler, H. (2023). Authoritarian and Benevolent Leadership: The Role of Follower Homophily, Power Distance Orientation, and Employability. Personnel Review.

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Ehrnrooth, M., Koveshnikov, A., Shauf, S., & Wechtler, H., (2023). High Performance Work System and Transformational Leadership: Revisiting and questioning their implications for health-related well-being. Frontiers in Psychology.

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Ehrnrooth, M., Koveshnikov, A., Balabanova, E., & Wechtler, H., (2022). The unique and relative importance of a high-performance work system and transformational leadership for constructive employee voice behavior: The case of a high power distance context. The International Journal of Human Resource Management.

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Koveshnikov, A., Ehrnrooth, M., & Wechtler, H. (2020). The three graces of leadership: Untangling the relative importance and the mediating mechanisms of three leadership styles in Russia. Management and Organization Review.

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Leaders' characteristics and toxic workplaces

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Heyden, M., Gu, J., Wechtler, H., Ekanayake, U. & (2022). The Face of Wrongdoing? An Expectancy violations perspective on CEO facial characteristics and media coverage of misconducting firms. Leadership Quarterly.

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​Wechtler, H., Koveshnikov, A., Dejoux, C. (2020), Staying and engaging in work against the odds: Investigating Corporate Stockholm Syndrome. Academy of Management, Vancouver, August 2020.

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Heyden, M., Wechtler, H., van Doorn, S. (2025), Wrinkles of Change: CEO Succession and the Reproduction of Age Profiles in the Executive Suite. Human Relations.

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Wechtler, H., Boedker, C & Connell, C. (2025). Leader psychopathy and workplace exhaustion: The uneven distribution of psychosocial hazards within organisations.

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Responsible Leadership

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Nguyen, G. N., Wechtler, H., & Lai, P. H. (2025). Mapping leadership studies to the achievement of sustainable development goals in tourism and hospitality: A systematic literature review and future research Agenda. Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management, 65, 101351.

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Nguyen, N. T. G., Wechtler, H., & Lai, P. H. (2025). Taking stock of responsible leadership research: a systematic literature review and research agenda. Society and Business Review.

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