Performance, aspirations, and risky organizational change

Administrative Science Quarterly

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 58-86

  Greve, Henrich R ^a  

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EID: 0032220357     PISSN: 00018392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2393591     Document Type: Article

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