Leadership attributes, masculinity and risk taking as predictors of crisis proneness

Gender in Management

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 163-187

  Sheaffer, Zachary ^a   Bogler, Ronit ^b   Sarfaty, Samuel ^c  

^a ARIEL UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^c Profit Group   (Israel)

Author keywords

Decision making; Gender; Leadership; Risk management

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952348844     PISSN: 17542413     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17542411111116563     Document Type: Article

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