Decision making during organizational change: Observations on disjointed incrementalism in an Australian local government authority

Management Decision

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 23-32

  Jones, Robert ^a   Gross, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Decision making; Local government; Organizational change

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986156541     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251749610124873     Document Type: Article

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