Management Consultants' Colourful Ways of Looking at Change: An Explorative Study under Dutch Management Consultants

Journal of Change Management

Volumn 7, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 243-254

  Van Nistelrooij, Antonie ^a   De Caluwé, Léon ^a   Schouten, Nanja ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ACCENTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

change orientations; management consultants; Organizational change

Indexed keywords

EID: 85106260520     PISSN: 14697017     EISSN: 14791811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14697010701689950     Document Type: Article

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