Surviving organizational change: How management communication helps balance mixed feelings

Corporate Communications

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 306-318

  Nelissen, Paul ^a   Selm, Martine Van ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Communication; Communication management; Employee communications; Organizational change

Indexed keywords

EID: 50249160598     PISSN: 13563289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13563280810893670     Document Type: Article

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