Communication and recovery: Structuration as an ontological approach to organizational culture

Communication Monographs

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 324-349

  Witmer, Diane F ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethnography; Organizational culture; Recovery; Structuration

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040360990     PISSN: 03637751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03637759709376427     Document Type: Article

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