Post bureaucracy and the politics of forgetting: The management of change at the BBC, 1991-2002

Journal of Organizational Change Management

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 290-303

  Harris, Martin ^a   Wegg Prosser, Victoria ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bureaucracy; Organizational change; Television; United Kingdom

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249722585     PISSN: 09534814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09534810710740146     Document Type: Article

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