Organizational design approaches in management consulting

Management Decision

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 713-731

  Visscher, Klaasjan ^a   Visscher Voerman, J Irene A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Organizational design; Organizational politics; Problem solving

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952904207     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251741011043894     Document Type: Article

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