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Leadership in the Asia Pacific Region: Insights and Lessons for Effectiveness

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Interest in leadership in the Asia Pacific region continues apace and unabated. Our chapter aims to achieve a trio of outcomes. First, to help us better understand how leadership processes and practices can be both different and the same in countries. Second, to assist managers to learn how to become better leaders by recognizing and adopting successful practices. Third, to move beyond overly dominant and ethnocentric Western literature and explore leadership based on differing cultural foundations. We deal with this crucial area in terms of what drives effective leadership and the implications for leadership theory, research, and practice.

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Acknowledgment

Professor Chris Rowley would like to acknowledge the Korea Foundation for its support and to thank it for the award of a fellowship for field research.

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  1. Visiting Fellow, Kellogg College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

    Chris Rowley

  2. Cass Business School, City University of London, London, UK

    Chris Rowley

  3. Rensis Likert Professor of Business, University of Michigan, Michigan, USA

    Dave Ulrich

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  1. School of Management, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    Nuttawuth Muenjohn

  2. School of Management, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    Adela McMurray

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Rowley, C., Ulrich, D. (2017). Leadership in the Asia Pacific Region: Insights and Lessons for Effectiveness. In: Muenjohn, N., McMurray, A. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Leadership in Transforming Asia. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57940-9_20

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