Board Team Leadership Revisited: A Conceptual Model of Shared Leadership in the Boardroom

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 104, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 403-420

  Vandewaerde, Maarten ^a   Voordeckers, Wim ^a   Lambrechts, Frank ^a   Bammens, Yannick ^b  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Board leadership; Board of directors; Conceptual framework; Shared leadership; Teams

Indexed keywords

EID: 80855131509     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-011-0918-6     Document Type: Article

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