Discourses of Leadership: Gender, Identity and Contradiction in a UK Public Sector Organization

Leadership

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 77-99

  Ford, Jackie ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b STOCKHOLM SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Sweden)

Author keywords

discourses; gender; identity; leadership; poststructuralist feminist perspectives

Indexed keywords

EID: 84990324345     PISSN: 17427150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1742715006060654     Document Type: Article

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