Manufacturing the past: Loss and absence in organizational change

Organization Studies

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 623-654

  Wolfram Cox, Julie R ^a  

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Author keywords

Emotion; Loss; Organizational change; Resistance; Retrospective analysis; Time

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039466305     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/017084069701800404     Document Type: Article

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