Distributed leadership in the development of a knowledge sharing system

European Journal of Information Systems

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 479-493

  Zhang, Jing ^a   Faerman, Sue R ^b  

^a CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed leadership; IS leadership; Knowledge sharing; Project leadership

Indexed keywords

EID: 35548982545     PISSN: 0960085X     EISSN: 14769344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.ejis.3000694     Document Type: Article

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