Distributed leadership in higher education: Rhetoric and reality

Educational Management Administration and Leadership

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 257-277

  Bolden, Richard ^a   Petrov, Georgy ^b   Gosling, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blended; Collegiality; Emergent; Managerialism; Power; Shared

Indexed keywords

EID: 60149110912     PISSN: 17411432     EISSN: 17411440     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1741143208100301     Document Type: Article

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