Ten years of the Leadership Quarterly: Contributions and challenges for the future

This article reviews the founding of The Leadership Quarterly (LQ) and the 188 articles published in its first decade. Multiple methods were used to p repare this review including interviews with former and current Le editors; quantitative techniques; and qualitative analysis to examine the themes, m ethods, and contributions of the journal during its first decade. Direction s for future research are provided, which integrate a decade of LQ author d irectives with interviews of prominent leadership scholars and the current authors' opinions grounded in the literature review.