From the follower's viewpoint: A configurational approach to the ideal academic leader

Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 293-307

  Smothers, Jack ^a   Bing, Mark N ^a   White, Darin ^b   Trocchia, Philip J ^c   Absher, Keith ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^b SAMFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^d UNION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

academic leadership; context specificity; followership; invariance; measurement equivalence; private universities; public universities

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053079835     PISSN: 15480518     EISSN: 19397089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1548051811404420     Document Type: Article

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