Studying practice: Situating talking about machines

Organization Studies

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1769-1782

  Contu, Alessia ^a,c   Willmott, Hugh ^b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY MANAGEMENT SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Community of practice; Identification; Ideological fantasy; Social practice; i ek

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845392344     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840606071895     Document Type: Review

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