Organizational Change and Development: Episodic and Continuous Changing

Dynamics of Organizational Change and Learning

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 177-196

  Weick, Karl ^a   Quinn, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive organizations; Organizational analysis; Organizational change; Organizational structure; Social construction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948757755     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470753408.ch10     Document Type: Chapter

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