Charismatic Leadership and Rhetorical Competence: An Analysis of Steve Jobs's Rhetoric

Group and Organization Management

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 131-161

  Heracleous, Loizos ^a   Klaering, Laura Alexa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b Geometry Global   (Germany)

Author keywords

charismatic leadership; ethos; rhetoric; situational context

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898917727     PISSN: 10596011     EISSN: 15523993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1059601114525436     Document Type: Article

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