Change Management: The Case of the Elite Sport Performance Team

Journal of Change Management

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 209-229

  Cruickshank, Andrew ^a   Collins, Dave ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Applied practice; complexity theory; decentred theory; framework; high performing culture

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862013821     PISSN: 14697017     EISSN: 14791811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14697017.2011.632379     Document Type: Article

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