Improving leadership in Higher Education institutions: A distributed perspective

Higher Education

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 763-779

  van Ameijde, Jitse D J ^a   Nelson, Patrick C ^a   Billsberry, Jon ^b   van Meurs, Nathalie ^c  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Institute for Clean Growth and Future Mobility   (United Kingdom)

^c MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Distributed; Higher education; Leadership; Project teams; Qualitative

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951208638     PISSN: 00181560     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10734-009-9224-y     Document Type: Article

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