Exploring empowerment cross-cultural differences along the power distance dimension

International Journal of Intercultural Relations

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 373-385

  Eylon, Dafna ^a   Au, Kevin Y ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Cross cultural; Disempowerment; Empowerment; Ethnic differences; Performance; Power distance; Satisfaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033131456     PISSN: 01471767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0147-1767(99)00002-4     Document Type: Article

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