The Impact of Emotionally Important Social Identities on the Construction of a Managerial Leader Identity: A Challenge for Nurses in the English National Health Service

Organization Studies

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 113-131

  Croft, Charlotte ^a   Currie, Graeme ^a   Lockett, Andy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Emotion; Identity work; Leadership; Nursing; Professional identity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84918536431     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840614556915     Document Type: Article

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