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An examination of three-way interactions of paternalistic leadership in China

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  • Wai Kwan Lau
  • Zhen Li
  • John Okpara

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The tight and simultaneous combination of moral, benevolent and authoritarian leadership as well as the negative impact of authoritarian leadership imposes challenges to paternalistic leadership researchers. We used three-way tests to investigate the relationships among three dimensions of paternalistic leadership and our results indicate that the relationship between benevolent/moral leadership and leadership effectiveness is stronger for high than for low authoritarian leadership. In addition, when a leader has low benevolent and/or moral leadership, low authoritarianism has higher leadership effectiveness than high authoritarianism. However, when both benevolent and moral leadership are high, high authoritarianism works better than low authoritarianism.

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  • Wai Kwan Lau & Zhen Li & John Okpara, 2020. "An examination of three-way interactions of paternalistic leadership in China," Asia Pacific Business Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 26(1), pages 32-49, January.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:apbizr:v:26:y:2020:i:1:p:32-49
    DOI: 10.1080/13602381.2019.1674031
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