Towards a Culturally Sensitive Approach to Organization Structuring: Where Organization Design Meets Organization Development

Organization Science

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 197-211

  Bate, Paul ^a   Khan, Raza ^b   Pye, Annie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Culture Structure Relationship; Leadership Process; Organization Design; Organization Development; Organizational Change

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034373818     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.11.2.197.12509     Document Type: Article

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