"Trans- + -form": Leader- and followership as an embodied, emotional and aesthetic practice for creative transformation in organisations

Leadership and Organization Development Journal

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 20-40

  Kuepers, Wendelin M ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Organizational restructuring; Phenomenology; Transformational leadership

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951539672     PISSN: 01437739     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01437731111099265     Document Type: Article

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