Karl Weick and the aesthetics of contingency

Organization Studies

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1693-1707

  Eisenberg, Eric M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambiguity; Contingency; Equivocality; Heedful interrelating; Karl Weick; Organizational communication; Sensemaking

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750229545     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840606068348     Document Type: Article

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