Explaining employee engagement with strategic change implementation: A meaning-making approach

Organization Science

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-23

  Sonenshein, Scott ^a   Dholakia, Utpal ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Change implementation; Retail; Sensemaking; Strategic change; Structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864980132     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1110.0651     Document Type: Article

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