New organizational forms: Towards a generative dialogue

Organization Studies

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1829-1847

  Palmer, Ian ^a   Benveniste, Jodie ^a   Dunford, Richard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Generative dialogue; Knowledge; New organizational forms

Indexed keywords

EID: 36649012758     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840607079531     Document Type: Article

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