Prof. Dr. Alfredo Behrens, from the International MBA FIA, had an article published in Thunderbird International Business Review in December 2009, a prestigious International Journal

Charisma, paternalism, and business leadership in Latin America

Abstract

If populist politics reveals a paradigm, in countries where populist politics are acceptable, effective paternalistic business leaders must offer unlimited protection in exchange for similarly unlimited allegiance from the workers. The reverse interview survey reported here suggests that, within knowledge-based industries, the knowledgeable leader might override paternalistic considerations that nonetheless rule for the larger segment of Brazilian workers, who may shun the foreign-appointed boss the most. Unfortunately, multinationals tend to expand abroad when they are mature businesses whose people-oriented founders may be long gone. Their more technocratic successors are more likely to appoint the most despised leaders at subsidiaries. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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