caa a22 4500 605483094 CHVBK 20210128100429.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150501xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10551-014-2125-8 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10551-014-2125-8 Authentic Leaders Promoting Store Performance: The Mediating Roles of Virtuousness and Potency [Elektronische Daten] [Arménio Rego, Dálcio Reis Júnior, Miguel Pina e Cunha] Sixty-eight stores of a retail chain were used for testing a model in which perceived authentic leadership (AL) predicts stores' sales achievement through the mediating role of perceived store virtuousness and perceived store potency. Employees reported AL, store virtuousness, and store potency. Sales achievement over a period of four consecutive months subsequent to data collection (on independent and mediating variables) was considered as dependent variable (for control: sales achievement in the previous 4months). The main findings are the following: (a) AL predicts store potency through the mediating role of store virtuousness; (b) store virtuousness predicts sales achievement through the mediating role of store potency; (c) AL predicts sales achievement via the mediating role of both store virtuousness and store potency. By focusing on three positive constructs, whose interrelations have scarcely been explored, and relating them to store performance, the study enriches the Positive Organizational Scholarship movement, and suggests that AL and virtuousness are good in themselves and also potential facilitators of group success. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2014 Authentic leadership nationallicence Group performance nationallicence Group potency nationallicence Group virtuousness nationallicence Rego Arménio Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal aut Reis Júnior Dálcio Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal aut Pina e Cunha Miguel Nova School of Business and Economics, INOVA, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal aut Journal of Business Ethics Springer Netherlands 128/3(2015-05-01), 617-634 0167-4544 128:3<617 2015 128 10551 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-014-2125-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-014-2125-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Rego Arménio Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Reis Júnior Dálcio Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Pina e Cunha Miguel Nova School of Business and Economics, INOVA, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Business Ethics Springer Netherlands 128/3(2015-05-01), 617-634 0167-4544 128:3<617 2015 128 10551