With the mention of the followership, academic circles gradually turn the focus from leadership to followership. The study of the followership started earlier in abroad, it's still in the primary stage in domestic. Scholars put forward different views based on different layers when involving the concept and dimensions, but a consensus has not yet reached. By combing the relevant literature published on domestic and foreign countries, the result shows: 1) The concept of followership is still lack of authoritative definition and relatively weak in the theoretical basis, so we need to define its concept more clearly and authoritatively; 2) The study of followership should be gradually changed from theoretical research to empirical research; 3) To promote the development of empirical research, scholars should be committed to the development and improvement of the scale of followership; 4) Implicit followership should be measured from multiple perspectives by indirect method; 5) The way of "dynamic" and "static" should be combined to explore the effect of followership in the organization.
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