Interwoven leadership: The missing link in multi-agency major incident response

Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 208-216

  Devitt, Katherine R ^a   Borodzicz, Edward P ^b  

^a Pharos Consultancy   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRISIS MANAGEMENT; LEADERSHIP; MODEL;

EID: 56349148343     PISSN: 09660879     EISSN: 14685973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5973.2008.00551.x     Document Type: Article

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