Charismatic Technology

Charismatic leadership and user acceptance of information technology

Received: 12 June 2006 Revised: 10 May 2007 Accepted: 22 July 2007 Abstract Although there is widespread agreement that leadership has important effects on information technology (IT) acceptance and use, relatively little empirical research to date has explored this phenomenon in detail. This paper integrates the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) with charismatic leader...

Transformational and Charismatic Leadership

Leaders have a significant role in creating the state of mind that is the society. They can serve as symbols of the moral unity of the society. They can express the values that hold the society together. Most important, they can conceive and articulate goals that lift people out of their petty preoccupations, carry them above the conflicts that tear a society apart, and unite them in the pursui...

Saliva – a charismatic fluid

Oral fluid is often called the ‘mirror of the body’. The noninvasive nature of salivary testing has made it an attractive and effective alternative to blood and urine. Use of saliva has become more extensive in recent years, particularly in relation to estimation of systemic levels of lipid-soluble drugs and hormones. Furthermore, saliva may provide a cost-effective approach for the screening o...

Audience perceptions of charismatic and non-charismatic oratory: The case of management gurus

Available online 2 February 2011 The purpose of thepaper is to investigatewhetherpeople consider someone a charismatic speaker because they are deploying the generic features commonly identified as being associated with charismatic oratory in the literature, or whether the attribution of charisma is informed by factors which vary across different settings. Video-taped extracts from speeches giv...

Charismatic communication style in knowledge-intensive organizations