From ineffectiveness to destruction: A qualitative study on the meaning of negative leadership

Leadership

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 102-128

  Schilling, Jan ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Abusive supervision; Content analysis; Destructive leadership; Grounded theory; Ineffective leadership; Negative leadership; Qualitative methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 60849136354     PISSN: 17427150     EISSN: 17427169     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1742715008098312     Document Type: Article

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