Identity, image, and issue interpretation: Sensemaking during strategic change in academia

Administrative Science Quarterly

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 370-403

  Gioia, Dennis A ^a   Thomas, James B ^a  

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EID: 0030242119     PISSN: 00018392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2393936     Document Type: Article

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