An investigation of champion-driven leadership processes

Leadership Quarterly

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 412-433

  Taylor, André ^a   Cocklin, Chris ^b   Brown, Rebekah ^a   Wilson Evered, Elisabeth ^c  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Champions; Complexity leadership; Distributed leadership; Leadership; Transformational leadership

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955464456     PISSN: 10489843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.leaqua.2011.02.014     Document Type: Article

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