When nationality matters: A study of departmental, hierarchical, professional, gender and age-based employee groupings' leadership preferences across 15 countries

International Journal of Cross Cultural Management

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 291-315

  Zander, Lena ^a   Romani, Laurence ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Demographic based employee groupings; Interpersonal leadership; Multinational organizations; National culture; Tenure based employee groupings

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847156780     PISSN: 14705958     EISSN: 17412838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1470595804047811     Document Type: Article

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