Transition and organizational dissonance in Serbia

Human Relations

Volumn 60, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1551-1574

  Hollinshead, Graham ^a   MacLean, Mairi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dissonance; Micro politics; Modernization and anti modernization; Narrative; Post socialist transition; Serbia

Indexed keywords

EID: 35348882685     PISSN: 00187267     EISSN: 1741282X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018726707083477     Document Type: Article

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