Managerial postalgia: Projecting a golden future

Journal of Managerial Psychology

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 825-841

  Ybema, Sierk ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Nostalgia; Organizational change; Organizational theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 23744511174     PISSN: 02683946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02683940410568284     Document Type: Article

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