Essai: Dislocating (instrumental) organizational time

Organization Studies

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 481-510

  Holmer Nadesan, Majia ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY WEST   (United States)

Author keywords

Agency; Organization; Post structuralism; Social theory; Time

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010900586     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/017084069701800306     Document Type: Article

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