Leadership as an elite field: Scottish banking leaders and the crisis of 2007-2009

Leadership

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 151-173

  Kerr, Ron ^a   Robinson, Sarah ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

elite; field; habitus; leadership; Scottish bankers; symbolic capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957908307     PISSN: 17427150     EISSN: 17427169     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1742715010394735     Document Type: Article

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