Leadership as a balancing act between performance- and development-orientation: A study of managers' and co-workers' understanding of leadership in an industrial organisation

Leadership and Organization Development Journal

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 222-237

  Wallo, Andreas ^a   Ellström, Per Erik ^a   Kock, Henrik ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Industrial organization; Leadership; Learning; Managerial work; Organizational change and development

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878256158     PISSN: 01437739     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01437731311326666     Document Type: Article

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