Unusual routines: Organizational (non)sensemaking

Journal of Communication

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-19

  Rice, Ronald E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; PERCEPTION;

EID: 41049094615     PISSN: 00219916     EISSN: 14602466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2466.2007.00371.x     Document Type: Article

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