The myth of the team captain as principal leader: extending the athlete leadership classification within sport teams

Journal of Sports Sciences

Volumn 32, Issue 14, 2014, Pages 1389-1397

  Fransen, Katrien ^a   Vanbeselaere, Norbert ^a   De Cuyper, Bert ^a   Vande Broek, Gert ^a   Boen, Filip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

informal leadership; peer leaders; shared leadership; sport psychology; team performance

Indexed keywords

ATHLETE; BELGIUM; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEADERSHIP; MALE; MOTIVATION; PERCEPTION; SPORT;

ATHLETES; BELGIUM; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEADERSHIP; MALE; MOTIVATION; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SPORTS;

EID: 84906082559     PISSN: 02640414     EISSN: 1466447X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02640414.2014.891291     Document Type: Article

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