Multi-level nature of and multi-level approaches to leadership

This introduction provides an overview to The Leadership Quarterly Special Issue on Multi-Level Approaches to Leadership. Building on the last such Special Issue more than a decade ago and a recent Yearly Review article [Yammarino, F. J., Dionne, S. D., Chun, J. U., & Dansereau, F. (2005). Leadership and levels of analysis: A state-of-the-science review. Leadership Quarterly, 16, 879–919], we focus on the multi-level nature of leadership and highlight the contributions of six articles that offer various multi-level conceptual and methodological approaches to leadership.