Paradox, defense and attachment: Accessing and working with emotions and relations underlying organizational change

Organization Studies

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-21

  Vince, Russ ^a   Broussine, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Emotion; Organizational behaviour; Organizational change; Relatedness; Visual data

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039398492     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/017084069601700101     Document Type: Article

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