Another kind of following behaviors have to do with the stability of the partnership, or what we could call loyalty to the partnership. These behaviors depend on the type of collaborators that form the partnership. E-collaborators show less loyalty to the partnership than w-collaborators; and the last ones show less loyalty to the partnership than c-collaborators (Chinchilla, 1997). Thus, relational leadership looks not only at the leader's influence to motivate collaborators
but also at his or her influence to retain them in the partnership. In a world of increasing mobility of key collaborators, the capacity to retain good collaborators, i.e. the capacity to create loyalty, becomes a critical function of the leader.