Eliciting managers' personal values: An adaptation of the laddering interview method

Organizational Research Methods

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 410-428

  Bourne, Humphrey ^a   Jenkins, Mark ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Interpretive; Interviews; Laddering; Personal values

Indexed keywords

EID: 26644458123     PISSN: 10944281     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1094428105280118     Document Type: Article

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