Navigating Organizational Change: Change Leaders, Employee Resistance and Work-based Identities

Journal of Change Management

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 143-163

  van Dijk, Rebecca ^a   van Dick, Rolf ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

change management; Organizational change; resistance to change; social identity

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957671982     PISSN: 14697017     EISSN: 14791811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14697010902879087     Document Type: Article

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