RT journal article T1 Happy-ne-r leadership for companies in emerging economies A1 Ruiz Rodríguez, Raquel A1 Ortiz Urbina-Criado, Marta A1 Ravina Ripoll, Rafael A2 Organización de Empresas K1 leadership K1 emerging economies K1 BRICS K1 Brazil K1 India K1 China K1 South Africa K1 E7 group K1 happy leadership K1 neuroleadership K1 Happy- NE-R leadership AB Business leaders in emerging economies want to create betterworkplaces. The first objective is to present a literature review on leadership inemerging economies. The second objective is to reflect on the most appropriateleadership styles for today’s firms in emerging economies. A bibliometricanalysis of the literature up to 2023 is developed. The results show that firms inemerging economies tend to consider the transformational leadership. And themain emerging themes are the perspective of corporate governance and effectssuch as innovation and sustainability. This paper is the first to propose aleadership style that combines three of the most current leadership styles,Happy, NEuro and Responsible leadership, called Happy-NE-R leadership.This new style can help leaders in emerging economies to manage theircompanies responsibly and improve the well-being of their people. Then,emerging economies can have better places to work and a happier and moresatisfied workforce. PB Inderscience SN 2049-2804 YR 2025 FD 2025 LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/35980 UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/35980 LA eng DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz RD 09-nov-2026