Authority and benevolence employees’ responses to paternalistic leadership in China

China's Domestic Private Firms: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Management and Performance

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 230-260

  Farh, Jiing Lih ^a   Cheng, Bor Shiuan ^b   Chou, Li Fang ^b   Chu, Xiao Ping ^c  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

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