From agency to structure: Analysis of an episode in a facilitation process

Human Relations

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 533-565

  Cooren, François ^a   Thompson, Fiona ^b   Canestraro, Donna ^b   Bodor, Tamás ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Actor Network Theory; Agency; Facilitation; Organizational discourse analysis; Rhetoric

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745647874     PISSN: 00187267     EISSN: 1741282X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018726706065373     Document Type: Article

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