Dialectical conditions: leadership structures as productives action generators

Albert Martin

Dialectical conditions: leadership structures as productives action generators

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Dialectical conditions: leadership structures as productives action generators. / Martin, Albert.
In: Management Revue, Vol. 17, No. 4, 2006, p. 420-447.

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