I scratch your back - you scratch mine. do procedural justice and organizational identification matter for employees' cooperation during change?

Journal of Change Management

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 41-59

  Michel, Alexandra ^a   Stegmaier, Ralf ^a   Sonntag, Karlheinz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Change supporting behavior; Commitment to change; Cooperation; Organizational change; Organizational identification; Procedural justice

Indexed keywords

EID: 78049495658     PISSN: 14697017     EISSN: 14791811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14697010903549432     Document Type: Article

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