Dealing with Time in Social Inquiry: A Tension between Method and Lived Experience

Organization Science

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 665-673

  Avital, Michel ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Social Research Practices; Temporal Factors; Time

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346739069     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.11.6.665.12532     Document Type: Article

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