CEO Leadership Behavior Across Cultures: The Linkage with Cultural Values and Culturally Endorsed Implicit Leadership Theory

CEO Leadership Behavior Across Cultures: The Linkage with Cultural Values and Culturally Endorsed Implicit Leadership Theory

Chapter 2 provided a review of the literature on executive leadership. It concluded that rigorous empirical research on CEOs seems to be in its infancy. Only a few studies have focused on how CEOs can influence firm outcomes and have found rather conflicting results. With minor exceptions, the extant literature is all based in North America and with North American executives. Furthermore, the existing literature examines how and what aspects of CEOs' behaviors and styles can result in positive or negative outcomes. But there is little study of why CEOs behave the way ...