Beyond letting go and moving on: New perspectives on organizational death, loss and grief

Scandinavian Journal of Management

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-10

  Bell, Emma ^a   Taylor, Scott ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Change; Closure; Death; Downsizing; Grief; Loss; Organization; Resistance; Restructuring

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951511480     PISSN: 09565221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scaman.2010.09.013     Document Type: Article

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