Quantifying leader lives: What historiometric approaches can tell us

Leadership Quarterly

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1104-1133

  Ligon, Gina Scott ^a   Harris, Daniel J ^a   Hunter, Samuel T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Historiometric; Life history; Multivariate analysis; Outstanding leadership; Q Sort

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870527055     PISSN: 10489843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.leaqua.2012.10.004     Document Type: Review

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