The Harvard Business School Story: Avoiding Knowledge by Being Relevant

Organization

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 211-231

  Contardo, Ianna ^a,c   Wensley, Robin ^b,d  

^a Instituto de Empress   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c IE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Business ideologies; Case method; Institutionalization; Storytelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 1642325726     PISSN: 13505084     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350508404041614     Document Type: Review

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