Shaping the other: Maintaining expert managerial status in a complex change management program

Group and Organization Management

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 685-711

  Cooney, Richard ^a   Sewell, Graham ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Automotive industry; Manufacturing systems; Organizational politics; Process control systems; Technological change; The problem of the other

Indexed keywords

EID: 55449084288     PISSN: 10596011     EISSN: 15523993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1059601108325699     Document Type: Review

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