Pathways to informal leadership: The moderating role of gender on the relationship of individual differences and team member network centrality to informal leadership emergence

Leadership Quarterly

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 175-194

  Neubert, Mitchell J ^a   Taggar, Simon ^b  

^a BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Gender; Leadership; Personality; Teams

Indexed keywords

EID: 2342425551     PISSN: 10489843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.leaqua.2004.02.006     Document Type: Article

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