Managing change initiatives: Fantasy or reality? The case of public sector organisations

Total Quality Management and Business Excellence

Volumn 18, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 153-179

  Soltani, Ebrahim ^a   Lai, Pei Chun ^b   Mahmoudi, Vahid ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b MING CHUAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Case study; Change initiatives; Success failure; UK public sector

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847394892     PISSN: 14783363     EISSN: 14783371     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14783360601053319     Document Type: Article

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