How Leaders Affect Followers’ Work Engagement and Performance: Integrating Leader−Member Exchange and Crossover Theory

British Journal of Management

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 299-314

  Gutermann, Daniela ^a   Lehmann Willenbrock, Nale ^b   Boer, Diana ^c   Born, Marise ^d   Voelpel, Sven C ^a  

^a JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c Universität Koblenz Landau ^*  (Germany)

^d ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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EID: 85017132092     PISSN: 10453172     EISSN: 14678551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8551.12214     Document Type: Article

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