Explaining executive integrity: governance, charisma, personality and agency

Management Decision

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1035-1049

  Tourigny, Louise ^a   Dougan, William L ^a   Washbush, John ^a   Clements, Christine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN WHITEWATER   (United States)

Author keywords

Charisma; Decision making; Ethics; Leadership; Personality; Stakeholders

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986015048     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251740310509562     Document Type: Article

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