Managing third-order change: The case of the Public Power Corporation in Greece

Long Range Planning

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 79-95

  Tsoukas, Haridimos ^a,b   Papoulias, Demetrios B ^c,d  

^a Athens Laboratory of Business Administration   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^d Public Power Corporation   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC INDUSTRY; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; ELECTRICITY; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

CULTURAL CHANGE; MARKET LIBERALIZATION; ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE; PUBLIC POWER CORPORATION (PPC);

STRATEGIC PLANNING;

INDUSTRIAL PRACTICE; PUBLIC SECTOR; STATE OWNED ENTERPRISE; UTILITY SECTOR;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 14244262160     PISSN: 00246301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lrp.2004.11.015     Document Type: Article

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