Women's leadership learning: A reflexive review of representations and leadership teaching

Management Learning

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 373-394

  Stead, Valerie ^a   Elliott, Carole ^b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Disrupting; experiential; leadership; learning; teaching; women

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882972882     PISSN: 13505076     EISSN: 14617307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350507612449504     Document Type: Article

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