Transformational Leadership Research in the Field of Hospitality

Abstract

Although transformational leadership is a fundamental research area of leadership literature, it has also spread to other disciplines. Transformational leadership has been a remarkable topic for the hospitality field in terms of the effects that the leader has on his/her followers. For this reason, there has been an important accumulation of knowledge about transformational leadership in the hospitality literature. However, there is no research in the literature that addresses the progress of transformational leadership research in hospitality to help researchers develop theoretical perspectives and guide practitioners' decisions. Therefore, this research aims to systematically review transformational leadership research in the hospitality field. The review included 36 studies from seven key hospitality journals. The findings basically indicate that that research on transformational leadership in the field of hospitality has not experienced sufficient development. There is a need to develop theoretical perspectives specific to the field in the field of hospitality.