Leadership as De-paradoxification: Leading New Drug Development Work at Three Pharmaceutical Companies

Leadership

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 31-52

  Sundgren, Mats ^a   Styhre, Alexander ^b  

^a ASTRAZENECA R AND D   (Sweden)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

de paradoxification; leadership; organizational creativity; pharmaceutical industry

Indexed keywords

EID: 84990359316     PISSN: 17427150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1742715006060652     Document Type: Article

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