Corporate Robespierres, ideologies of management and change

Journal of Organizational Change Management

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 129-140

  Essers, Juup ^a   Böhm, Steffen ^b   Contu, Alessia ^c  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Change management; Ethics; Organizational change

Indexed keywords

EID: 69549124717     PISSN: 09534814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09534810910947172     Document Type: Article

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