Confucius Institutes distributed leadership and knowledge sharing in a worldwide network

Learning Organization

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 469-482

  Li, Hsi Chang ^a   Mirmirani, Sam ^a   Ilacqua, Joseph A ^a  

^a BRYANT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Knowledge management; Network synthesis; Shared leadership

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350308021     PISSN: 09696474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09696470910993945     Document Type: Article

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