More than meets the eye: The role of subordinates' self-perceptions in leader categorization processes

Leadership Quarterly

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 367-382

  Van Quaquebeke, Niels ^a   Van Knippenberg, Daan ^a   Brodbeck, Felix C ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Implicit Leadership Theories; Leader categorization; Self concept; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955476713     PISSN: 10489843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.leaqua.2011.02.011     Document Type: Article

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