No such thing as … a “one best way” to manage organizational change

Management Decision

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 11-18

  Burnes, Bernard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contingency theory; Management; Models; Organizational change

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986093715     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251749610150649     Document Type: Review

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