Persuasive histories: Decentering, recentering and the emotional crafting of the past

Journal of Organizational Change Management

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 606-621

  Ooi, Can Seng ^a  

^a Department of Innovation and Organizational Economics   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Ethnography; History; Organizational sociology; Post modernism

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036447020     PISSN: 09534814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09534810210449569     Document Type: Article

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