Keywords
national culture
leadership styles
foreign companies.
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Abstract
This paper examines the relationship between "national culture" (cultural dimensions) and leadership styles displayed by managers in foreign companies operating in Puerto Rico. In this study, the independent variable was "national culture" and the national culture index (Geert Hofstede, 1980) served as indicator. In contrast, leadership styles were the dependent variable measured using the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ) (Bass and Avolio, 2004). Findings indicate that, overall, "national culture" resulted as a significant variation in transactional and transformational leadership styles employed by managers working in foreign companies operating in Puerto Rico.By submitting a contribution to consideration of the Editorial Board of Fórum Empresarial, the authors attest that it is an original, unpublished work, which has not been nor will be simultaneously submitted to another journal for consideration and publication; that they are responsible for the work carried out and the content of the article; and they have the corresponding copyrights.
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