Tapping the principal pipeline: Identifying talent for future school leadership in the absence of formal succession management programs

Educational Administration Quarterly

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 695-727

  Myung, Jeannie ^a   Loeb, Susanna ^a   Horng, Eileen ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

careers; promotion; recruitment; succession; teachers

Indexed keywords

EID: 80355123582     PISSN: 0013161X     EISSN: 15523519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013161X11406112     Document Type: Article

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