The impact of change process and context on change reactions and turnover during a merger

Journal of Management

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1309-1338

  Rafferty, Alannah E ^a   Restubog, Simon Lloyd D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Change context; Change process; Organizational merger; Reactions to change; Voluntary employee turnover

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955222169     PISSN: 01492063     EISSN: 15571211     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0149206309341480     Document Type: Article

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