On the way to theory: A processual approach

Organization Studies

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 173-190

  Nayak, Ajit ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Becoming; Bergson; Cooper; Heraclitus; Intuition; Ontology; Process; Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 38949114357     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840607082227     Document Type: Article

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