A framework for understanding collective leadership: The selective utilization of leader and team expertise within networks

Leadership Quarterly

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 933-958

  Friedrich, Tamara L ^a   Vessey, William B ^a   Schuelke, Matthew J ^a   Ruark, Gregory A ^b   Mumford, Michael D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b US Army Research Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Collective leadership; Distributed leadership; Expertise; Network; Shared leadership

Indexed keywords

EID: 71649100482     PISSN: 10489843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.leaqua.2009.09.008     Document Type: Article

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