Strategic planning and Habermasian informed discourse: Reality or rhetoric

Critical Perspectives on Accounting

Volumn 15, Issue 4-5, 2004, Pages 469-483

  Holloway, David A ^a  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Communicative rationality; Decision alternatives; Decision assurance; Feedvack and planning; Organizational change; Participative strategic planning

Indexed keywords

EID: 2942635492     PISSN: 10452354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1045-2354(03)00040-6     Document Type: Article

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