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Global Leaders in East and West: Do all Global Leaders Lead in the Same Way?

Anupam Agrawal

Caroline Rook

ISBN: 978-1-78350-479-4

Publication date: 1 January 2014

Abstract

This study compares multi-rater leadership evaluations of 1,748 executives in 10 national clusters to determine whether leaders in the East and West display different global leadership behavioral patterns. Data were collected via the Global Executive Leadership Inventory (GELI), which measures 12 dimensions of global leadership behaviors. The 360-degree GELI also provided feedback data from the executives’ 13,166 superiors, peers, and subordinates. Based on multilevel modeling analysis of self-ratings and observer ratings, findings indicated that the executives generally display similar patterns of global leadership behavior, but there are significant cultural differences on some leadership dimensions.

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Acknowledgments

Caroline Rook acknowledges the INSEAD Dutch Alumni for funding her research. Anupam Agrawal would like to thank the INSEAD Global Leadership Center for supporting this research and Pierre Vrignaud for advice on statistical modeling. Both authors would like to thank Manfred Kets de Vries, Elizabeth Florent-Treacy, Alicia Cheak-Baillargeon, Parisa Gilani, and Joyce S. Osland for their comments on drafts of this chapter.

Citation

Agrawal, A. and Rook, C. (2014), "Global Leaders in East and West: Do all Global Leaders Lead in the Same Way?", Advances in Global Leadership (Advances in Global Leadership, Vol. 8), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 155-179. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1535-120320140000008015

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited