Change experience and employee reactions: Developing capabilities for change

Personnel Review

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 106-124

  Stensaker, Inger G ^a   Meyer, Christine B ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Norway)

Author keywords

Change capabilities; Change experience; Change management; Employees attitudes; Organizational change; Reactions to change

Indexed keywords

EID: 82055207242     PISSN: 00483486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00483481211189974     Document Type: Article

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