In praise of duality and dualism: Rethinking agency and structure in organizational analysis

Organization Studies

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 21-42

  Reed, Michael I ^a  

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Author keywords

Agency; Critical realism; Organizational analysis; Politics; Postmodernism; Structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040360984     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/017084069701800103     Document Type: Article

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