The Contingency Model and the Dynamics of the Leadership Process

Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 11, Issue C, 1978, Pages 59-112

  Fiedler, Fred E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

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EID: 77956827950     PISSN: 00652601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-2601(08)60005-2     Document Type: Article

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