Institutionalization and response maintenance in organizational behavior management

Journal of Organizational Behavior Management

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 41-77

  Sigurdsson, Sigurdur Oli ^a,b   Austin, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Institutionalization; Organizational behavior management; Response generalization; Response maintenance

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845950311     PISSN: 01608061     EISSN: 15408604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J075v26n04_03     Document Type: Review

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