Governance in permanent whitewater: The board's role in planning and implementing organisational change

Corporate Governance: An International Review

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 334-344

  Fields, Dail ^a,b  

^a REGENT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Lithuania Christian College   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Board roles; Change success; Organisational change

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947290026     PISSN: 09648410     EISSN: 14678683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8683.2007.00564.x     Document Type: Review

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