Time to change: Temporal shifts as enablers of organizational change

Organization Science

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 583-597

  Staudenmayer, Nancy ^a   Tyre, Marcie ^a   Perlow, Leslie ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Organizational Change; Punctuated Change; Qualitative Methodology; Time and Timing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036746406     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.13.5.583.7813     Document Type: Article

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