Two Independent Value Orientations: Ideal and Counter-Ideal Leader Values and Their Impact on Followers' Respect for and Identification with Their Leaders

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 185-195

  Graf, Matthias M ^a,b   van Quaquebeke, Niels ^c   van Dick, Rolf ^b  

^a Kienbaum Management Consultants GmbH   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c KÜHNE LOGISTICS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Counter ideal values; Ideal values; Identification with leaders; Leadership; Respect for leaders

Indexed keywords

EID: 80255137496     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-011-0897-7     Document Type: Article

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