Measuring the efficacy of leaders to assess information and make decisions in a crisis: The C-LEAD scale

Leadership Quarterly

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 633-648

  Hadley, Constance Noonan ^a   Pittinsky, Todd L ^b   Sommer, S Amy ^d   Zhu, Weichun ^c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Crisis leadership; Decision making; Information assessment; Public health and safety

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960465383     PISSN: 10489843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.leaqua.2011.05.005     Document Type: Article

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