Leader self-definition and leader self-serving behavior

Leadership Quarterly

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 509-529

  Rus, Diana ^a,b   van Knippenberg, Daan ^a   Wisse, Barbara ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Leader self definition; Leader self serving behaviors; Leadership; Social comparisons; Social information processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953707744     PISSN: 10489843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.leaqua.2010.03.013     Document Type: Article

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