Organizational learning, change and power: Toward a practice-theory framework

Learning Organization

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 495-524

  Ford, Randal ^a  

^a Malik and Seeme Hasan School of Business   (United States)

Author keywords

Change management; Empowerment; Learning; Learning organizations; Management power; Organizational change

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746685601     PISSN: 09696474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09696470610680008     Document Type: Article

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