CROSS-CULTURAL LEADERSHIP
Although most leadership research and the-ory has been developed and tested within a
Western context, a growing interest in research
and theory focuses on the role of leadership
across cultural contexts. This interest is driven
in part by the globalization of organizations
that encourage and, at times, require leaders
to work from and across an increasingly diverse
set of locations. The result is an increased focus
on cross-cultural leadership research (Gelfand
et al. 2007, House et al. 2004). Extensive
reviews also exist for cross-cultural research
that is more tangentially linked to leadership
(Hofstede 2001, Kirkman et al. 2006, Leung
et al. 2005).