A silent cry for leadership: Organizing for leading (in) clusters

Leadership Quarterly

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 328-343

  Sydow, Jörg ^a   Lerch, Frank ^a   Huxham, Chris ^b   Hibbert, Paul ^b  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cluster; Leadership; Network; Organizing; Relations; Structuration

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650726836     PISSN: 10489843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.leaqua.2011.02.008     Document Type: Article

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