We draw attention to how and why multiple perspectives on emergence can promote leadership scholarship within the broad umbrella category of emergent leadership. Tracing the derivation of emergent leadership and related concepts since 1941, we identify four empirically derived themes: Entries, or how and where definitions were introduced and adopted; Essences, identification of key components and processes; Eclipses, where certain constructs and approaches have gained prominence over others; and Erasures, where particular lines of inquiry and methodologies have been subsumed, ignored, or removed from easy access by researchers. In critically reviewing the emergent leadership literature, we apply these themes to reveal a number of flaws that inhibit emergent leadership research, including: inconsistent measures, narrow sampling frames, tautological definitions, limited theorization, and very little attention to implications for the development of leader-follower relations. Based on this analysis, and with reference to contemporary issues, we propose an agenda for future research on emergent leadership that is informed by interdisciplinary perspectives that give prominence to emergence dynamics.

我们提请注意关于涌现的多种观点如何以及为什么可以在涌现领导的广泛范畴内促进领导学术。追溯自 1941 年以来新兴领导力和相关概念的衍生，我们确定了四个经验衍生主题：条目，或定义的引入和采用方式和地点；本质，关键部件和过程的识别；日食，某些结构和方法比其他结构和方法更突出；和擦除，其中特定的调查和方法已被纳入、忽略或从研究人员轻松访问中删除。在批判性地回顾新兴领导力文献时，我们应用这些主题来揭示阻碍新兴领导力研究的一些缺陷，包括：不一致的测量、狭窄的抽样框架、同义反复的定义、有限的理论化，以及很少关注对领导者发展的影响-追随者关系。基于这一分析，并参考当代问题，我们提出了未来关于新兴领导力研究的议程，该议程由突出新兴动态的跨学科观点提供信息。