Leadership Development in Agricultural Economics: Challenges for Academic Units

Crafting and executing strategy are key tasks to be carried out by a manager of an enterprise. Unit leaders are managers of an academic enterprise called a department. The objective of this paper is to provide an overview of information collected from interviews with unit leaders of departments of a...

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Main Author: Michael A. Boland
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Western Agricultural Economics Association 2009-12-01
Series:Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics
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Online Access:https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/57633
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description Crafting and executing strategy are key tasks to be carried out by a manager of an enterprise. Unit leaders are managers of an academic enterprise called a department. The objective of this paper is to provide an overview of information collected from interviews with unit leaders of departments of agricultural economics and discuss challenges being faced by these unit leaders in March 2009.
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Leadership Development in Agricultural Economics: Challenges for Academic Units
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western agricultural economics association
title Leadership Development in Agricultural Economics: Challenges for Academic Units
title_full Leadership Development in Agricultural Economics: Challenges for Academic Units
title_fullStr Leadership Development in Agricultural Economics: Challenges for Academic Units
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