Abstract

Scholars of leadership and organization behavior have long explored and studied the strategic leadership theory. Any attempt at theory construction in this area must encompass reliable and valid measures for key leadership characteristics. Yet, with respect to an important construct, i.e., strategic leadership, there is still no proper measurement among academic researches. In this paper, we develop a scale for strategic leadership. We collected data from top-managers for two independent samples, and performed a series of analyses to establish the reliability and validity of the scale for strategic leadership. The reliability measures, exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, and subsequent statistical tests strongly support our measure. Further, we also present nomological validity of the constructs of strategic leadership. Finally, we discuss our results and how this study might be useful to other researchers.