Employee sensemaking in the transition to nomadic work

Journal of Organizational Change Management

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 210-222

  Bean, Cynthia J ^a   Eisenberg, Eric M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Employee attitudes; Employee behaviour; Organizational change

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644598850     PISSN: 09534814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09534810610648915     Document Type: Article

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