Essai: The Ghost in the Organism

Organization Studies

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 817-839

  Cummings, Stephen ^a   Thanem, Torkild ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

History; Mechanism; Metaphor; Organism; Organization

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141532049     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840602235006     Document Type: Article

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