The Message Design Logics of Organizational Change

Communication Monographs

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 354-378

  Barbour, Joshua B ^a   Jacocks, Cara W ^a   Wesner, Kylene J ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication as Design; Institutional Theory; Message Design Logics; Planned Organizational Change

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882270259     PISSN: 03637751     EISSN: 14795787     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03637751.2013.788251     Document Type: Article

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