We had two specific purposes. First, although empowering leadership has been recognized as important for team performance, few studies have examined mechanisms that link empowering leadership and team performance, particularly in management teams. A critical question is whether it is enough for leaders to simply exhibit a certain number of behaviors to generate effective performance in teams. We argue that the relationship between leader behaviors and team performance is more complicated than simple enactment of behaviors. Rather, we propose two categories of intermediate mechanisms We consider the role of knowledge sharing as a team process and team efficacy as an emergent state in the empowering leadership performance relationship. Marks, Mathieu, and Zaccaro (2001) emphasized that team processes are different from emergent states, noting that “team processes are the means by which members work interdependently to utilize various resources,” but emergent states refer to the “cognitive, motivational and affective states of teams”