A cross cultural comparison of the importance of leadership traits for effective low-level and high-level leaders: Australia and China

International Journal of Cross Cultural Management

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 47-60

  Casimir, Gian ^a   Waldman, David A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive prototypes; Cross cultural; Leader level; Leadership

Indexed keywords

EID: 61049409265     PISSN: 14705958     EISSN: 17412838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1470595807075171     Document Type: Article

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