Managing organizational change: Negotiating meaning and power-resistance relations

Organization Science

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 22-41

  Thomas, Robyn ^a   Sargent, Leisa D ^b   Hardy, Cynthia ^b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dialogue; Organizational becoming; Organizational change; Power resistance relations

Indexed keywords

EID: 79851494655     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1090.0520     Document Type: Article

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