Downplaying Leadership: Researching How Leaders Talk About Themselves

Leadership

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 469-479

  French, Robert ^a   Simpson, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

leadership; linguistic analysis; metaphor; research method

Indexed keywords

EID: 84990321436     PISSN: 17427150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1742715006068936     Document Type: Article

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