... to describe in 14 chapters the influences of socio‐cultural, economic, political and religious backgrounds on leadership practices in the Middle East. Islam has been found to be a dominant factor, which contributes to the theorizing of leadership thinking and behaviour in significant ways. Not only...

... conventional sampling method (Bernard, 2000 ; Berg, 2004). Middle East Networking Mentoring Cross‐cultural studies Interpersonal relations Career development Families in Arab collectivist societies (Hofstede, 2001) are regarded as being centrally important and the main unit and the back‐bone...

... background in the need to learning how to manage what may not be directly acknowledged or discussed. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 International managers Networking Globalization China Middle East Cross‐cultural studies The rapid increase in the number of organisations...