Our query into “what is leadership” can be traced back to Galton (1869) in his book, Hereditary Genius . Leadership, as a unique characteristic of extraordinary individual leaders, has dominated leadership research up until the early 1950s and was then followed by the rise of behavioral...

Adapting to, creating, and managing change has become an unavoidable and even central part in today's organizations ( Griffin, Neal, & Parker, 2007 ). At the external level, organizations are constantly seeking opportunities to identify and anticipate clients' needs, switch or expand into new...

Purpose – The purpose of this study was to explore Chinese consumers’ motivations for purchasing luxury products, and to unravel the interrelationships among individual differences, motives, and luxury consumption. Methodology – Data were collected from general consumers living in a large...

The first section of this volume deals with leadership qualities in the global environment. In particular, we are pleased to have scholars share their leading-edge research in terms of the following leadership characteristics and qualities: personality, competency, the ability to scan...

Hogan and Benson's chapter in this volume used the CEO of both Nissan and Renault Ghosn, who was born in Brazil with Lebanese heritage, educated in France, worked in the U.S., and then resurrected a major Japanese firm, as an example to support the view that the principles of leadership are...

In this chapter, we empirically examine leaders’ proactivity by taking the goal-process view of proactivity and from a multiple-rating source perspective. We proposed five behavioral indicators (envisioning and following goals, planning, solving problems, creating ideas, and championing...

In the opening chapter of this volume, Dave Ulrich and Norm Smallwood enlighten us with a unique perspective toward the understanding of leadership. They point out that in the past, most leadership research used an inside/out approach that studies leadership attributes (i.e., what is inside...

Introduction : global leadership in times of crisis and downturn : a leopard in uncharted deep woods / Ying Wang, Ming Li, William H. Mobley -- Personality, leadership, and globalization : linking personality to global organizational effectiveness / Robert Hogan, Michael J. Benson -- Culture,...

Volume 6 of "Advances in Global Leadership" includes timely and impactful chapters on various concepts and processes associated with leading across cultures and other boundaries. In these times of accelerating complexity and global inter-connectedness, a deeper understanding of the multiple...