The organizational story as leadership

Leadership

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 281-300

  Parry, Ken W ^a   Hansen, Hans ^b  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Discourse; Leadership; Organizational stories

Indexed keywords

EID: 46349110442     PISSN: 17427150     EISSN: 17427169     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1742715007079309     Document Type: Article

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