Second-Generation Leader Categorization Research: How Subordinates' Self- and Typical Leader Perceptions Moderate Leader Categorization Effects

Journal of Applied Social Psychology

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1293-1319

  Van Quaquebeke, Niels ^a   Van Knippenberg, Daan ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 84862169423     PISSN: 00219029     EISSN: 15591816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2012.00899.x     Document Type: Article

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