Resources for Change: The relationships of organizational inducements and psychological resilience to employees' attitudes and behaviors toward organizational change

Academy of Management Journal

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 727-748

  Shin, Jiseon ^a   Taylor, M Susan ^a   Seo, Myeong Gu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

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EID: 84862185899     PISSN: 00014273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5465/amj.2010.0325     Document Type: Article

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