Assessing organizational resilience: An interactionist approach

Management

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 229-265

  Tillement, Stéphanie ^a   Cholez, Céline ^a   Reverdy, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

Articulation; Division of labor; Modernization project; Occupational groups; Organizational resilience; Reliability; Signaling; Structural interactionism; Work

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858382022     PISSN: 12864892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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