Organizational Time: A Dialectical View

Organization

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 271-296

  Cunha, Miguel Pina ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

^b NOVA SCHOOL OF BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Action; Contingency; Dialectics; Improvisation; Planning; Synthesis; Time

Indexed keywords

EID: 1642351692     PISSN: 13505084     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350508404041616     Document Type: Review

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