The organizational transformation process: The micropolitics of dissonance reduction and the alignment of logics of action

Administrative Science Quarterly

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 477-506

  Bacharach, Samuel B ^a   Bamberger, Peter ^a   Sonnenstuhl, William J ^a  

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DOI: 10.2307/2393939     Document Type: Article

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