Mission accomplished?: Research methods in the first five years of leadership

Leadership

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 73-83

  Bryman, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

content analysis; leadership; qualitative research; quantitative research; research methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952302224     PISSN: 17427150     EISSN: 17427169     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1742715010386864     Document Type: Article

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