Towards the development of a social capital approach to evaluating change management interventions

European Journal of Information Systems

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 60-74

  Hatzakis, Tally ^a   Lycett, Mark ^a   Macredie, Robert D ^a   Martin, Valerie A ^b  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Change management; Evaluation; Human aspects; Relationship management; Social capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 18444373901     PISSN: 0960085X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.ejis.3000522     Document Type: Article

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