Transformational leadership and employee creativity: Mediating role of creative self-efficacy and moderating role of knowledge sharing

Management Decision

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 894-910

  Mittal, Swati ^a   Dhar, Rajib Lochan ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE   (India)

Author keywords

Creativity; Knowledge sharing; Transformational leadership

Indexed keywords

EID: 84931041463     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/MD-07-2014-0464     Document Type: Article

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