Social Networks and Planned Organizational Change: The Impact of Strong Network Ties on Effective Change Implementation and Use

The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 281-300

  Tenkasi, Ramkrishnan V ^a   Chesmore, Marshal C ^b  

^a BENEDICTINE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DEERE AND COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

information technology implementation; knowledge transfer; planned change; social networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 22144447400     PISSN: 00218863     EISSN: 15526879     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0021886303258338     Document Type: Article

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