Qualitative and historiometric methods in leadership research: A review of the first 25years of The Leadership Quarterly

Leadership Quarterly

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 132-151

  Parry, Ken ^a   Mumford, Michael D ^b   Bower, Ian ^a   Watts, Logan L ^b  

^a BOND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Case study; Content analysis; Grounded theory; Historiometric; Qualitative research

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892536726     PISSN: 10489843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.leaqua.2013.11.006     Document Type: Review

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