Does the intervention fit? An explanatory model of intervention success and failure in complex organizational environments

Improving Organizational Interventions for Stress and Well-Being: Addressing Process and Context

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 120-134

  Randall, Raymond ^a   Nielsen, Karina M ^b  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE FOR THE WORKING ENVIRONMENT   (Denmark)

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EID: 84894093094     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203723494     Document Type: Chapter

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