Who emerges as a leader? Meta-analyses of individual differences as predictors of leadership emergence

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 532-536

  Ensari, Nurcan ^a   Riggio, Ronald E ^b   Christian, Julie ^c   Carslaw, Gregory ^c  

^a ALLIANT INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CLAREMONT MCKENNA COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Individual differences; Leader emergence; Leadership; Meta analyses

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959344833     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2011.05.017     Document Type: Article

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