The emergence and maintenance of ethical leadership in organizations: A question of embeddedness?

Journal of Personnel Psychology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 7-19

  Eisenbeiß, Silke Astrid ^a   Giessner, Steffen R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Contextual antecedents; Embeddedness; Ethical leadership; Peer group; Societal culture

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860758520     PISSN: 18665888     EISSN: 21905150     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1866-5888/a000055     Document Type: Review

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