Positive Organization Development: Innovation-inspired Change in an Economy and Ecology of Strengths

The Oxford Handbook of Positive Organizational Scholarship

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Cooperrider, David L ^a   Godwin, Lindsey N ^b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Appreciative inquiry; Innovation; Innovation inspired positive organization development; Managing as design; Positive institutions; Strength based management; Sustainability; Theory of change

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925013034     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199734610.013.0056     Document Type: Chapter

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