A road for achieving an international measure and understanding on leaders' behaviors

Leadership and Organization Development Journal

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 678-692

  Quesada, Gioconda ^a   González, Marvin E ^a   Kent, Thomas ^a  

^a School of Business   (United States)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Costa Rica; Leaders; Spain; Transformational leadership; United States of America

Indexed keywords

EID: 55649102565     PISSN: 01437739     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01437730810916631     Document Type: Article

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