Love and leadership: Constructing follower narrative identities of charismatic leadership

Management Learning

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 21-38

  Parry, Ken ^a   Kempster, Steve ^b  

^a BOND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Charisma; followership; identity; leadership; love; metaphor; narrative analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893048662     PISSN: 13505076     EISSN: 14617307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350507612470602     Document Type: Article

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