From leadership-as-practice to leaderful practice

Leadership

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 195-211

  Raelin, Joe ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

agency vs. structure; collective leadership; distributed leadership; leaderful practice; leadership; leadership development; leadership as practice

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957928313     PISSN: 17427150     EISSN: 17427169     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1742715010394808     Document Type: Article

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