Post-processual challenges for the emerging strategy-as-practice perspective: Discovering strategy in the logic of practice

Human Relations

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 217-242

  Chia, Robert ^a   MacKay, Brad ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dwelling; Immanent logic; Methodological individualism; Post processual; Sociality of inertia; Trans individual

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846614568     PISSN: 00187267     EISSN: 1741282X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018726707075291     Document Type: Review

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