Understanding indigenous leadership research: Explication and Chinese examples

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Understanding indigenous leadership research: Explication and Chinese examples
The Leadership Quarterly

Integrating the constructivist and positivist research traditions we propose a three-step methodological framework and use a study of Chinese indigenous leadership practices as an example to illustrate how to utilize the framework to study indigenous leadership practices. We argue that indigenous leadership research is an ideal way to examine and interpret leadership practices in a specific social context because not all leadership practices are captured in dominant Western perspectives that utilize Western-built instruments which often fail to account for perspectives and practices of leadership in non-Western contexts. Finallywe discuss implications of the proposed methodology on leadership research and offer suggestions on how to deal with challenges when conducting indigenous leadership research in various cultures.

Citation: 
The Leadership Quarterly Volume 23, Issue 6, December 2012, Pages 1063–1079

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