Epistemic objects, artefacts and organizational change

Organization

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 437-456

  Miettinen, Reijo ^a,b   Virkkunen, Jaakko ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b Ctr Activ Theor/Devmtl Wk Res   (Finland)

Author keywords

Epistemic object; Organizational change; Representational artefacts; Routine

Indexed keywords

EID: 17644380685     PISSN: 13505084     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350508405051279     Document Type: Article

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