Narrating organisational identities by way of evolutionary tales-Talking Shell from an oil to an energy company

Scandinavian Journal of Management

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 33-43

  Backer, Lise ^a  

^a Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Greening of oil business; Narration of organisational identities

Indexed keywords

EID: 38749104756     PISSN: 09565221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scaman.2007.11.005     Document Type: Article

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