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Research Articles

Impact of environmentally specific transformational leadership on organizational citizenship behavior for the environment: the role of moral reflectiveness and leader group prototypicality

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Pages 1413-1430 | Received 30 Jul 2021, Accepted 14 Dec 2021, Published online: 14 Feb 2022

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