Organizational Sustainability: Organization Design and Senior Leadership to Enable Strategic Paradox

The Oxford Handbook of Positive Organizational Scholarship

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Smith, Wendy K ^a   Lewis, Marianne W ^b   Tushman, Michael L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^c HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Organizational design; Organizational sustainability; Peak performance; Senior teams; Strategic paradox

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924939807     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199734610.013.0061     Document Type: Chapter

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