From well-bounded ethnographies to intervening in mycorrhizae activities

Organization Studies

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1783-1793

  Engeström, Yrjö ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Activity theory; Contradictions; Instrumentalities; Interventions; Mycorrhizae; Swarming

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845443806     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840606071898     Document Type: Review

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