Eliciting information about organizational culture via laddering

Information Systems Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 215-229

  Rugg, Gordon ^a,b,c   Eva, Malcolm ^d   Mahmood, Atiya ^d   Rehman, Nazia ^d   Andrews, Stephanie ^d   Davies, Sarah ^d  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Laddering; Organizational culture; Personal construct theory; System analysis

Indexed keywords

PERSONAL CONSTRUCT THEORY;

LADDER NETWORKS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; SORTING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0038380243     PISSN: 13501917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2575.2002.00124.x     Document Type: Article

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