Trope control: The costs and benefits of metaphor unreliability in the description of empirical phenomena

British Journal of Management

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 143-155

  Ramsay, John ^a  

^a STAFFORDSHIRE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 2942642295     PISSN: 10453172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8551.2004.00411.x     Document Type: Review

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