Mindfulness and the quality of organizational attention

Organization Science

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 514-524

  Weick, Karl E ^a   Sutcliffe, Kathleen M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Conceptualizing; Encoding; Mindful organizing; Mindfulness

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746698903     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1060.0196     Document Type: Article

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