What do business school deans do? Insights from a UK study

Management Decision

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1396-1419

  Thomas, Howard ^a   Davies, Julie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Business schools; Leadership; Principals; United Kingdom

Indexed keywords

EID: 72049131562     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251740910995620     Document Type: Article

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