The impossibility of the 'true self' of authentic leadership

Leadership

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 463-479

  Ford, Jackie ^a   Harding, Nancy ^a  

^a BRADFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

authentic leadership; critical leadership studies; critical management studies; Jessica Benjamin; object relations theory; psychoanalytic theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 80855130159     PISSN: 17427150     EISSN: 17427169     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1742715011416894     Document Type: Article

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