Research Evolution and Hot-Spots Prospect of Domestic Leadership Style Studies
By studying the literature on leadership style published by domestic core journals from 2000 to 2021,this paper intends to reveal the research evolution path and hot spots of leadership style,comprehensively analyzes the external characteristics such as quantity and time distribution,insinuation distribution,author cooperation,as well as the internal characteristics such as research context and theme evolution.The results indicate that the research points are relatively scattered and the research cooperation on domestic leadership styles is relatively loose.The research has different focuses at different periods:with the focus on the study of classical leadership style theory during the embryonic period,on the relationship between leadership style and organizational performance in the Chinese context during the developmental period,and on the impact of emerging leadership styles on enterprise innovation and employee innovation at the mature stage.The future research hotspots will focus on the relationship between leadership style and innovation performance,psychological empowerment,as well as the study of ambidextrous leadership and female leadership traits in Chinese contexts.