Naive dialecticism and Chinese employees' commitment to change

Journal of Managerial Psychology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 48-70

  Chen, Jingqiu ^a   Wang, Lei ^b   Huang, Minyan ^a   Spencer Rodgers, Julie ^c  

^a Shanghai Jiao Tong University   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Change management; China; Commitment to change; Employees behaviour; Naive dialecticism; Performance change; State owned enterprise

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862908303     PISSN: 02683946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02683941211193857     Document Type: Article

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