Age and leadership: The moderating role of legacy beliefs

Leadership Quarterly

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 43-50

  Zacher, Hannes ^a   Rosing, Kathrin ^b   Frese, Michael ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Age; Legacy beliefs; Passive avoidant leadership; Transactional; Transformational

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951726017     PISSN: 10489843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.leaqua.2010.12.006     Document Type: Article

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