Leadership with inner meaning: A contingency theory of leadership based on the worldviews of five religions

Leadership Quarterly

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 771-806

  Kriger, Mark ^a   Seng, Yvonne ^b  

^a BI NORWEGIAN BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Norway)

^b AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contingency theory; Natural experiments; Nondual worldviews; Ontological levels; Spiritual leadership

Indexed keywords

EID: 26944487182     PISSN: 10489843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.leaqua.2005.07.007     Document Type: Article

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