... are McGrath (1984) , Hogg (1992) , Wheelan (1994) , Guzzo and Dickson (1996) , and Forsyth (1988) . The contingency theories of leadership represent the dominating approach when it comes to understanding the importance of the situation in which leaders lead (see Yukl (2011) for a critical review...

... of certain methodologies, we are encouraged to shift gear towards assessing how useful these methodologies are in terms of carrying us from the world of practice to theory and vice‐versa. If methodologies help us to progress our thinking and our practices, they are “true” in a pragmatist sense. If they stall...