Leadership as practice: Challenging the competency paradigm

Leadership

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 363-379

  Carroll, Brigid ^a   Levy, Lester ^a   Richmond, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND BUSINESS SCHOOL   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Leadership; Micro emancipatory practices; Rationality and rationalization; Theory of practice

Indexed keywords

EID: 55049087921     PISSN: 17427150     EISSN: 17427169     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1742715008095186     Document Type: Review

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