Organizing Alignment: A Case of Bridge-building

Organization

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 311-327

  Suchman, Lucy ^a  

^a NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Heterogeneous engineering; Ordering; Organizational ethnography; Performance; Planning

Indexed keywords

EID: 0345847474     PISSN: 13505084     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/135050840072007     Document Type: Article

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