The role of story-telling in organizational leadership

Leadership & Organization Development Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 11-17

  Forster, Nick ^a   Cebis, Martin ^a   Majteles, Sol ^a   Mathur, Anurag ^a   Morgan, Roy ^a   Preuss, Janet ^a   Tiwari, Vinod ^a   Wilkinson, Des ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Communications; Leadership; Management learning; Stories

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986116796     PISSN: 01437739     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01437739910251134     Document Type: Article

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