Organizational hope: Reaffirming the constructive task of social and organizational inquiry

Human Relations

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1015-1052

  Ludema, James D ^a   Wilmot, Timothy B ^a   Srivastva, Suresh ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hopeful social sciences; Organizational hope; Social and organizational reconstruction; Social constructionism; Textured vocabularies of hope; Ultimate concerns

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040564793     PISSN: 00187267     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/001872679705000809     Document Type: Article

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