On organizational becoming: Rethinking organizational change

Organization Science

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 567-582

  Tsoukas, Haridimos ^a   Chia, Robert ^a  

^a ALBA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Continuous Change; Emergence; Experien ce; Improvization; Interaction; Process; Reflexivity; Routines

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036746466     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.13.5.567.7810     Document Type: Article

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