Effects of Change Interventions: What Kind of Evidence Do We Really Have?

Journal of Applied Behavioral Science

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 5-27

  Barends, Eric ^a   Janssen, Barbara ^a   ten Have, Wouter ^a   ten Have, Steven ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

evidence; organizational change; replication; research design; systematic review; validity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893963645     PISSN: 00218863     EISSN: 15526879     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0021886312473152     Document Type: Article

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