Two increasingly popular domains of research have made great strides explaining leadership via an identity lens (). These domains focus either on a leader’s own identity or on a leader’s influence in representing and altering the identities of others. Our paper contributes to these areas by highlighting dominant assumptions underlying the literatures and generating counterfactual assumptions in need of systematic exploration. It is important to acknowledge and evaluate assumptions because of the role they play in what we study and how we interpret data. As such, our paper brings existing assumptions to light and generates counterfactuals that are in need of more sustained empirical work. Our work thus sets out to a) expose existing assumptions at the intersection of leadership and identity, b) generate theoretically plausible counterfactual assumptions and c) identify themes tying our counterfactual assumptions together. Together, this paper supports, challenges, and promotes the extension of research applying an identity lens to leadership.

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用反事实的眼光看待：领导力和身份交叉点的替代假设

两个日益流行的研究领域已经在通过身份视角解释领导力方面取得了长足的进步（）。这些领域要么关注领导者自己的身份，要么关注领导者在代表和改变他人身份方面的影响力。我们的论文通过强调文献背后的主导假设并生成需要系统探索的反事实假设，为这些领域做出了贡献。承认和评估假设非常重要，因为它们在我们的研究内容和解释数据的方式中发挥着重要作用。因此，我们的论文揭示了现有的假设，并产生了需要更持续的实证工作的反事实。因此，我们的工作旨在：a）暴露领导力和身份交叉点的现有假设，b）产生理论上合理的反事实假设，c）确定将我们的反事实假设联系在一起的主题。总之，本文支持、挑战并促进将身份视角应用于领导力的研究的扩展。