Developing and validating historiometric measures of leader individual differences by computerized content analysis of documents

Leadership Quarterly

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1152-1172

  Spangler, William D ^a   Gupta, Alka ^a   Kim, Dong Ha ^a   Nazarian, Serima ^a  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CEOs; Computerized content analysis; Historiometry; Leadership; Narcissism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870537431     PISSN: 10489843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.leaqua.2012.11.002     Document Type: Review

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