2020
Growing up among cultures: Intercultural competences, personality, and leadership styles of third culture kids
Publication
Publication
European Journal of International Management , Volume 14 - Issue 2 p. 327- 356
The world seems to be increasingly in demand of global leaders with a transformational leadership style who do business across borders with intercultural ease. To identify such leaders, this study explores whether third culture kids (TCKs) (n = 121) compared to non-TCKs (n = 116) exhibit a stronger set of multicultural personality traits and intercultural competences, and whether TCKs compared to non-TCKs, via their multicultural personality traits and intercultural competences, prefer transformational leadership more. Results from group comparisons indicated that TCKs display more intercultural sensitivity than non-TCKs. Parallel mediated regression analyses showed that being a TCK, compared to not being a TCK, had a positive indirect effect on their preference for transformational leadership through open-mindedness, while it had a negative indirect effect on their preference for transformational leadership through flexibility and emotional stability.
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doi.org/10.1504/EJIM.2020.105548, hdl.handle.net/1765/125446 | |
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Organisation | Department of Psychology |
De Waal, M.F. (Monika F.), & Born, M. (2020). Growing up among cultures: Intercultural competences, personality, and leadership styles of third culture kids. European Journal of International Management, 14(2), 327–356. doi:10.1504/EJIM.2020.105548 |