Leadership style and entrepreneurial change: The Centurion operation at Philips Electronics

Journal of Organizational Change Management

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 73-91

  Karsten, Luchien ^a   Keulen, Sjoerd ^b   Kroeze, Ronald ^c   Peters, Rik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Business history; Change management; Leadership styles; Organizational change

Indexed keywords

EID: 58849114181     PISSN: 09534814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09534810910933915     Document Type: Article

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