Ten years of talking about machines

Organization Studies

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1805-1820

  Orr, Julian E ^a,b  

^a Black Sheep Farm ^*  (United States)

^b Black Sheep Farm   (United States)

Author keywords

Enactment; Ethnography; Frankenstein; Organization; Technique; Work practice

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845409854     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840606071933     Document Type: Review

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