What a design approach offers to organization development

Journal of Applied Behavioral Science

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 23-40

  Trullen, Jordi ^a   Bartunek, Jean M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT RAMON LLULL   (Spain)

^b BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Design science; OD theorizing; OD values; Organization development

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847298536     PISSN: 00218863     EISSN: 15526879     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0021886306297549     Document Type: Article

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