Implicit leadership theories: Think leader, think effective?

Journal of Management Inquiry

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 141-150

  Schyns, Birgit ^a   Schilling, Jan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Applied Science   (Germany)

Author keywords

implicit leadership theories; prototypes

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955550495     PISSN: 10564926     EISSN: 15526542     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1056492610375989     Document Type: Article

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