Father leadership: The Singapore case study

Management Decision

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 89-104

  Low, Patrick Kim Cheng ^a,b  

^a Economics and Strategic Research   (Kazakhstan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Confucianism; Government; Leadership; Singapore

Indexed keywords

EID: 31744449089     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251740610641481     Document Type: Article

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