Truce breaking and remaking: The CEO's role in changing organizational routines

Advances in Strategic Management

Volumn 32, Issue , 2015, Pages 1-45

  Kaplan, Sarah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

CEO; Cognition; Incentives; Organizational change; Routines; Truces

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939797882     PISSN: 07423322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1108/S0742-332220150000032001     Document Type: Review

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