What do leaders have to live up to? Contrasting the effects of central tendency versus ideal-based leader prototypes in leader categorization processes

Leadership

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 191-217

  Quaquebeke, Niels Van ^a   Graf, Matthias M ^b   Eckloff, Tilman ^c  

^a KÜHNE LOGISTICS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Kienbaum Management Consultants GmbH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

information processing; leader categorization; leader prototypes; Leadership perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898908705     PISSN: 17427150     EISSN: 17427169     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1742715013476081     Document Type: Article

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