Profaning the sacred in leadership studies: A reading of Murakami's A Wild Sheep Chase

Organization

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 860-880

  Śliwa, Martyna ^a   Spoelstra, Sverre ^b   Sørensen, Bent Meier ^c   Land, Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c Copenhagen Business School ^*  (Denmark)

Author keywords

Heroic leadership; leadership studies; literature; novel; profanation; sacrifice

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888023936     PISSN: 13505084     EISSN: 14617323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350508412455837     Document Type: Article

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