Politics and organizational change: The lived experience

Human Relations

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 609-629

  Buchanan, David ^a,c   Badham, Richard ^b  

^a DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^c DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Change agents; Managing change; Organization development; Organization politics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0009953317     PISSN: 00187267     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/001872679905200503     Document Type: Article

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