Drop your tools: An allegory for organizational studies

Administrative Science Quarterly

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 301-313

  Weick, Karl E ^a  

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EID: 0030306370     PISSN: 00018392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2393722     Document Type: Article

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