Transformational leadership education and agency perspectives in business school pedagogy: A marriage of inconvenience?

British Journal of Management

Volumn 21, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2010, Pages

  Tourish, Dennis ^a   Craig, Russell ^b   Amernic, Joel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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EID: 77649203738     PISSN: 10453172     EISSN: 14678551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8551.2009.00682.x     Document Type: Article

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