School leadership succession and the challenges of change

Educational Administration Quarterly

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 62-89

  Fink, Dean ^b   Brayman, Carol ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Learning organization; Principal mobility; Standards agenda; Succession; Trajectories

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644980891     PISSN: 0013161X     EISSN: 15523519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013161X05278186     Document Type: Review

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