Direction, alignment, commitment: Toward a more integrative ontology of leadership

Leadership Quarterly

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 635-653

  Drath, Wilfred H ^a   McCauley, Cynthia D ^a   Palus, Charles J ^a   Van Velsor, Ellen ^a   O'Connor, Patricia M G ^a   McGuire, John B ^a  

^a CENTER FOR CREATIVE LEADERSHIP   (United States)

Author keywords

Complexity leadership; Distributed leadership; Integrative leadership; Leadership beliefs; Leadership culture; Leadership development; Leadership ontology; Leadership practices; Relational leadership

Indexed keywords

EID: 55549128203     PISSN: 10489843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.leaqua.2008.09.003     Document Type: Article

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