License to fail? How leader group prototypicality moderates the effects of leader performance on perceptions of leadership effectiveness

Leadership Quarterly

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 434-451

  Giessner, Steffen R ^a   van Knippenberg, Daan ^a   Sleebos, Ed ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Leader performance; Leader prototypicality; Leadership effectiveness; Trust in leadership

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349150785     PISSN: 10489843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.leaqua.2009.03.012     Document Type: Article

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