: This 2023 review from Frontiers in Psychology critiques the confusion between being a subordinate and the actual act of "following." It argues for a "process" approach where followers are individuals influenced toward a shared goal.
: Published in ScienceDirect , this paper examines "follower-centric" leadership and how followers contribute to the leadership process from their own perspective.
: This paper analyzes why individuals relinquish autonomy to follow others. It concludes that followership evolved as a strategy to solve group cooperation and coordination problems.
: This 2024 paper from arXiv introduces a framework for teaching information retrieval models how to better follow complex human instructions rather than just matching keywords. Social and Behavioral Science