Your favourite manager is an organisational disaster

European Business Review

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 5-16

  Aarum Andersen, Jon ^a  

^a INLAND NORWAY UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Leaders; Leadership; Management styles; Managers; Sweden

Indexed keywords

EID: 67249105309     PISSN: 0955534X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09555340910925157     Document Type: Article

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