A proposal for operationalizing the pace and scope of organizational change in management studies

Organizational Research Methods

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 720-737

  Street, Christopher T ^a   Gallupe, R Brent ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Complexity theory; Continuous; Organizational change; Radical; Relative measures

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350071786     PISSN: 10944281     EISSN: 15527425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1094428108327881     Document Type: Article

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