Dispositional Resistance to Change: Measurement Equivalence and the Link to Personal Values Across 17 Nations

Journal of Applied Psychology

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 935-944

  Oreg, Shaul ^a   Bayazit, Mahmut ^b   Vakola, Maria ^c   Arciniega, Luis ^d   Armenakis, Achilles ^e   Barkauskiene, Rasa ^f   Bozionelos, Nikos ^g   Fujimoto, Yuka ^h   González, Luis ⁱ   Han, Jian ^j,k   Hřebíĉková, Martina ^l   Jimmieson, Nerina ^m   Kordaĉová, Jana ⁿ   Mitsuhashi, Hitoshi ^o   Mlaĉić, Boris ^p   Ferić, Ivana ^p   Topić, Marina Kotrla ^p   Ohly, Sandra ^q   Saksvik, Per Øystein ^r   Hetland, Hilde ^s   Saksvik, Ingvild ^s   van Dam, Karen ^t   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b SABANCI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

^d INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO AUTÓNOMO DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^e AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f MYKOLAS ROMERIS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^g DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^h DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^j CHINA EUROPE INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOL   (China)

^k Peking University   (China)

^l INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

^m UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

ⁿ INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^o UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^p INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES IVO PILAR   (Croatia)

^q GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^r NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^s UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^t TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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Author keywords

measurement equivalence; personal values; resistance to change; scale validation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; ORGANIZATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; AFFECT; ATTITUDE; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL VALUES;

EID: 48049086831     PISSN: 00219010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0021-9010.93.4.935     Document Type: Article

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