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Metadata
- Authors
- Banks, G. C., Fischer, T., Gooty, J., & Stock, G.
- Affiliations
- University of North Carolina at Charlotte (US)
- University of Geneva (CH)
- Corresponding author
- Banks, George C.
- Venue
- The Leadership Quarterly
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2021-04
- Volume
- 32
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 101471
- ISSN
- 1048-9843 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W3092916451
- Cited by
- 260
- References
- 127
- Citations by year
- 2026: 46 · 2025: 59 · 2024: 63 · 2023: 46 · 2022: 32 · 2021: 13
- FWCI
- 22.81
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- Licence
- Locations
- The Leadership Quarterly (publishedVersion)
- Archive ouverte UNIGE (University of Geneva) (acceptedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Archive ouverte UNIGE (University of Geneva) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Ethics in Business and Education
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Strategy and Management › Leadership and Management in Organizations
- Keywords
- ethical leadership, conceptual confusion, signaling theory, prosocial values, moral emotions, nomological network, causal inference, dyadic leadership
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