ABSTRACT
Global leadership, with its beginnings in the late 1980s, is a relatively new area of research in the broader eld of international business and international management. Its emergence coincided with, and indeed arose from, the rapid acceleration of the globalization of business in the late twentieth century (Evans, Pucik, & Barsoux, 2002; Hedlund, 1986). This rapid transformation of the global business world-from being country-to-country in nature to a milieu where “for commercial and practical purposes, nations do not exist and the relevant business arena [is] something like a big unied home market”—left companies scrambling to nd executives and managers who possessed the skills to operate in this new global world (Black, Morrison, & Gregersen, 1999; Mendenhall, 2001).
