Sustainability and organizational transformation: Putting the cart before the horse? (part one)

Industrial and Commercial Training

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 249-256

  Muja, Naser ^a   Appelbaum, Steven H ^a   Walker, Tara ^a   Ramadan, Said ^a   Sodeyi, Tolu ^a  

^a Canada   (Canada)

Author keywords

Change management; Corporate leadership; Organizational transformation; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922688079     PISSN: 00197858     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/ICT-02-2013-0007     Document Type: Article

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