'If I should fall from Grace...': Stories of change and organizational ethics

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 535-551

  Rhodes, Carl ^a   Pullen, Alison ^a   Clegg, Stewart R ^a  

^a Key Research Centre for Management and Organization Studies   (Australia)

Author keywords

Downsizing; Ethics in organizations; Narrative; Organizational change; Organizational storytelling; Ricoeur

Indexed keywords

EID: 75949094478     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-009-0116-y     Document Type: Article

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