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Leadership in India

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In this chapter, the objectives here are to examine leadership as they can be interpreted in the Indian cultural context.

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Low, P.K.C. (2013). Leadership in India. In: Leading Successfully in Asia. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31287-8_6

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