The role, function, and contribution of attribution theory to leadership: A review

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The Dark Side of Leadership: A Three-Level Investigation of the Cascading Effect of Abusive Supervision on Employee Creativity (2012, methodology): “In a similar vein, the central finding of attribution research is that people make causal explanations for the behaviors of the individuals around them to adjust their own behaviors to social environments (Heider, 1958; Martinko et al., 2007a).”
Understanding internal, external, and relational attributions for abusive supervision (2014, background): “Employees’ attributional styles (i.e., tendencies to make similar attributions across situations; Martinko et al., 2007) could also interact to influence the relationships discussed in our studies.”
Narrative attributions of entrepreneurial failure (2013, background): “…attribution bias’ – the tendency of individuals to assume their own actions explain positive outcomes (‘internal attributions’), yet causes independent of their own agency (‘external attributions’) explain negative outcomes (for an overview, see Martinko et al., 2007; Rogoff et al., 2004).”