Cross-Cultural Generalizability of Paternalistic Leadership: An Expansion of Leader-Member Exchange Theory

Group and Organization Management

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 391-420

  Pellegrini, Ekin K ^a   Scandura, Terri A ^b   Jayaraman, Vaidyanathan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

India; leader member exchange; organizational commitment; paternalistic leadership

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955722371     PISSN: 10596011     EISSN: 15523993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1059601110378456     Document Type: Article

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