Distributed leadership in higher education: What does it accomplish?

Leadership

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 299-310

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Collegiality; Higher Education; Identity; Influence; Power; Reflexivity; Rhetoric

Indexed keywords

EID: 69949178811     PISSN: 17427150     EISSN: 17427169     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1742715009337762     Document Type: Article

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