My boss' group is my group: Experimental evidence for the leader-follower identity transfer

Leadership and Organization Development Journal

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 551-563

  van Dick, Rolf ^a   Schuh, Sebastian C ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Employee behaviour; Leadership

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956540311     PISSN: 01437739     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01437731011070032     Document Type: Article

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