Having your cake and eating it too: Discourses of transcendence and their role in organizational change dynamics

Journal of Organizational Change Management

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 333-348

  Abdallah, Chahrazad ^a   Denis, Jean Louis ^b   Langley, Ann ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ÉCOLE NATIONALE D'ADMINISTRATION PUBLIQUE   (Canada)

^c HEC MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Case studies; Contradiction; Organizational change; Transcendence

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959236396     PISSN: 09534814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09534811111132730     Document Type: Article

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