Leadership and team cohesiveness across cultures

Leadership Quarterly

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 358-370

  Wendt, Hein ^a   Euwema, Martin C ^b   van Emmerik, I J Hetty ^c  

^a Catholic University Leuven ^*  (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Individualism collectivism; Leadership; Team cohesiveness

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349284300     PISSN: 10489843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.leaqua.2009.03.005     Document Type: Article

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