Affective Commitment to Change and Innovation Implementation Behavior: The Role of Charismatic Leadership and Employees’ Trust in Top Management

Journal of Change Management

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 399-417

  Michaelis, Björn ^a   Stegmaier, Ralf ^a   Sonntag, Karlheinz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

affective commitment to change; Charismatic leadership; innovation implementation; trust in top management

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960832117     PISSN: 14697017     EISSN: 14791811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14697010903360608     Document Type: Article

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