Liden and Wayne Earn Leadership Quarterly Decennial Award
Global recognition for the most impactful research in leadership
Liden and Wayne Earn Leadership Quarterly Decennial Award
Bob Liden, Professor of Management, and Sandy Wayne, Dean and Professor of Management, have once again been recognized among the foremost voices in servant leadership research. They, along with alumni co-authors Jeremy Meuser (Ph.D. ’16), Jia Hu (Ph.D. ’12), Jungfeng Wu (Ph.D. ’17), and Chenwei Liao (Ph.D. ’14), received the 2025 Leadership Quarterly Decennial Influential Article Award, sponsored by Elsevier.
The honor recognizes their 2015 paper, “Servant leadership: Validation of a short form of the SL-28,” as the most influential article of that year, based on editorial review and more than 1,000 scholarly citations. This is Liden’s third Decennial Award and the second he has shared with Wayne.
Liden previously earned the 2024 award for “Leadership theory and research in the new millennium: Current theoretical trends and changing perspectives,” and in 2018, he and Wayne were honored for “Servant leadership: Development of a multidimensional measure of multilevel assessment.” Winning multiple times in the past decade underscores the global impact of their servant leadership research.
Leadership Quarterly is the leading journal in leadership studies, with a five-year impact factor of 11.8 (2024). [Read the article]