Less followership, less leadership? An inquiry into the basic but seemingly forgotten downsides of leadership

Management (France)

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 266-282

  Alvesson, Mats ^a   Blom, Martin ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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