Conceptualizing distributed leadership as a school reform: Revisiting job redesign theory

Distributed Leadership According to the Evidence

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 167-195

  Mayrowetz, David ^a   Murphy, Joseph ^b   Louis, Karen Seashore ^c   Smylie, Mark A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203868539     Document Type: Chapter

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