Leadership and identity construction: Reframing the leader-follower interaction from an identity theory perspective

Leadership

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 115-127

  Lührmann, Thomas ^a   Eberl, Peter ^b  

^a CTcon GmbH   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Identity; Leader follower interaction; Leadership; Social constructivism

Indexed keywords

EID: 46349096114     PISSN: 17427150     EISSN: 17427169     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1742715007073070     Document Type: Article

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