Organization/literature: Exploring the seam

Organization Studies

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 517-535

  De Cock, Christian ^a,c   Land, Christopher ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fiction; Interdisciplinarity; Literature; Narrative; Organization; Representation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645582140     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840605058234     Document Type: Article

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