This historical essay recognizes the contribution of Amatai Etzioni to the theory of organizational leadership. Despite his identification of topics which later became the dominant leadership paradigms of the next several decades, Etzioni has largely been unrecognized in the leadership literature. In this essay, Etzioni's ideas are described and compared to the ideas of the leadership field. His ideas are also placed in the timeline of leadership theory development.
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