Positive Deviance: A Metaphor and Method for Learning from the Uncommon

The Oxford Handbook of Positive Organizational Scholarship

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Lavine, Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Deviance; Keywords; Organizational change; Positive; Positive deviance; Social change

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EID: 84897436686     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199734610.013.0077     Document Type: Chapter

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