Reform as routine: Organizational change and stability in the modern world

Reform as Routine: Organizational Change and Stability in the Modern World

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 1-167

  Brunsson, Nils ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Employees; Managers; New organizational forms; Reform; Reform models; Reforms; Social institutions

Indexed keywords

EID: 85060679272     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198296706.001.0001     Document Type: Book

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