The contest over meaning: Hermeneutics as an interpretive methodology for understanding texts

Organizational Research Methods

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 12-33

  Prasad, Anshuman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAVEN   (United States)

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EID: 0036110358     PISSN: 10944281     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1094428102005001003     Document Type: Review

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