Leadership in context: Investigating hierarchical impacts on transformational leadership

Leadership and Organization Development Journal

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 710-726

  Bruch, Heike ^a   Walter, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Middle management; Sweden; Transformational leadership

Indexed keywords

EID: 36148947206     PISSN: 01437739     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01437730710835452     Document Type: Article

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