Spontaneous Organizational Reconfiguration: A Historical Example Based on Xenophon's Anabasis

Organization Science

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 445-460

  Aupperle, Kenneth E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

Author keywords

Army; Change; Culture; Environment; Historical; Horizontal; Hypercompetition; Leadership; Metaphor; Organizational; Paradigm; Reconfiguration; Renewal; Societal; Spontaneous; Transformational

Indexed keywords

EID: 2242475706     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.7.4.445     Document Type: Article

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