Leadership and uncertainty: how role ambiguity affects the relationship between leader group prototypicality and leadership effectiveness

British Journal of Management

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 411-421

  Cicero, Lavinia ^a   Pierro, Antonio ^a   van Knippenberg, Daan ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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EID: 77953981232     PISSN: 10453172     EISSN: 14678551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8551.2009.00648.x     Document Type: Article

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