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Volume 8, Issue 3
1 March 1987
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Review Article| March 01 1987

A Cognitive Look at Organisational Development, or Meanings have Feelings, Don't They?

Dag Bjorkegren
Dag Bjorkegren
Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-6577
Print ISSN: 0143-7720
© MCB UP Limited
1987
International Journal of Manpower (1987) 8 (3): 9–10.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb045121

Why do many ambitious organisational development projects fail, and why is it so difficult to change organisational cultures? Recent research findings about human thinking seem to provide some answers to these questions.

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