Relevance of culture in studies of leadership: ignored or dismissed?

Until recently, conclusions drawn about leadership have been made from a decidedly Western perspective, primarily based on theory developed in the U.S. using data gathered from U.S. sources. As our data show, however, times have changed, as there has been a significant shift in the source of leadership research with study samples increasingly coming from outside the U.S. Although the GLOBE study illustrated that national culture has a...