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Contribution to Book
Global Leadership in Perspective
The Routledge Companion to Leadership (2016)
  • Allan W. Bird, Northeastern University
  • Mark E. Mendenhall, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
  • Joyce S Osland, San Jose State University
  • Gary R. Oddou, Kozai Group
  • Sebastian Reiche, IESE Business School
Abstract
Global leadership, with its beginnings in the late 1980s, is a relatively new area of research in the broader eld of international business and international management. Its emergence coincided with, and indeed arose from, the rapid acceleration of the globalization of business in the late twentieth century (Evans, Pucik, & Barsoux, 2002; Hedlund, 1986). This rapid transformation of the global business world-from being country-to-country in nature to a milieu where “for commercial and practical purposes, nations do not exist and the relevant business arena [is] something like a big unied home market”—left companies scrambling to nd executives and managers who possessed the skills to operate in this new global world (Black, Morrison, & Gregersen, 1999; Mendenhall, 2001).
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Publication Date
September 13, 2016
Editor
John Storey, Jean Hartley, Jean-Louis Denis, Paul 't Hart, David Ulrich
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
ISBN
978-131757824-6
DOI
10.4324/9781315739854
Citation Information
Allan W. Bird, Mark E. Mendenhall, Joyce S Osland, Gary R. Oddou, et al.. "Global Leadership in Perspective" Milton Park, Didcot, United KingdomThe Routledge Companion to Leadership (2016) p. 348 - 358
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/joyce_osland/153/