Vision driven organizations: Measurement techniques for group classification

Management Decision

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 241-264

  Mcgivern, Michael H ^a   Tvorik, Steven J ^b  

^a Change Management Consultant   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PHOENIX   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; Measurement; Organizational change; Strategy; Vision

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986047338     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251749810211045     Document Type: Article

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