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Virtual Leadership: An Important Leadership Context

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2015

Gordon B. Schmidt*
Affiliation:
Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne
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E-mail: schmidtg@ipfw.edu, Address: IPFW, OLS Neff 288D, Fort Wayne, IN 46805

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Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2014

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