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Abstract Based on the meta-analysis of 117 independent empirical papers including 426 effect sizes, 26092 independent samples and a total capacity of 101 358 samples, this article shows that transformational leadership can bring higher performance in the context of China.Transformational leadership significantly promotes not only employees’ individual performance, including task, contextual and innovative performance, but also team and organizational performance. These promotive effects are all stronger than those in the context of western countries.Whereas, the sorting order of promotive effects are inconsistent in these two contexts. Contextual factors (including organizational attribution, leader level, regional attribute and publication status) and measurement factors (including data attribute, measurement tool and degree of common method bias), acting as mediators, can significantly adjust the relationship between transformational leadership and employees’ individual performance. However, the moderating effect is different from that in Western context. The result of this article can draw a periodical conclusion on the relationship between transformational leadership and performance in Chinese context.
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Received: 16 December 2015
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2016, Vol. 13 
