Coping with multicultural projects: The leadership styles of Finnish project managers

International Journal of Project Management

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 387-396

  Mäkilouko, Marko ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Finland)

Author keywords

Cultural blindness; Ethnocentrism; Leadership style; Multicultural; Relationships orientation; Task orientation

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; MANAGERS;

FOREIGN CULTURES; MULTICULTURAL PROJECTS; PROJECT LEADERSHIP; TASK ORIENTATION;

PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

EID: 1942498737     PISSN: 02637863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijproman.2003.08.004     Document Type: Article

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