Leadership learning through lived experience: A process of apprenticeship?

Journal of Management and Organization

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 4-22

  Kempster, Stephen ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY MANAGEMENT SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ability; Apprenticeship; Experience; Grounded theory; Leadership; Learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 43949102498     PISSN: 18333672     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5172/jmo.2006.12.1.4     Document Type: Article

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