Managing social change: A process-sociological approach to understanding organisational change within the National Health Service

Sociology of Health and Illness

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 525-550

  Dopson, Sue ^a   Waddington, Ivan ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Elias; Griffiths; NHS; Organisational change

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030519457     PISSN: 01419889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9566.ep10939116     Document Type: Article

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