A critical review of executive coaching research: A decade of progress and what's to come

Coaching

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 70-88

  Passmore, Jonathan ^a   Fillery Travis, Annette ^b  

^a MOP Coaching and Consulting Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^b MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coaching research; Coaching research questions; Grounded Theory; IPA; Meta analysis; Mixed methods research; Randomised controlled trials

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960731405     PISSN: 17521882     EISSN: 17521890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17521882.2011.596484     Document Type: Article

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