Attachments: The unrecognised link between employees and their workplace (in change management projects)

Journal of Corporate Real Estate

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 17-37

  Haynes, Barry P ^a   Inalhan, Goksenin ^b  

^a Istanbul Technical University ^*

^b ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Change management; Corporate strategy; Employee relations; Environmental psychology; Workplace

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993028522     PISSN: 1463001X     EISSN: 14791048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14630010910940534     Document Type: Article

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