Enabling courageous collective action: Conversations from united airlines Flight 93

Organization Science

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 497-516

  Quinn, Ryan W ^a   Worline, Monica C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adversity; Collective action; Conversation; Courage; Narrative; Organizing; Published online in articles in advance February 20, 2008; Social movement framing history

Indexed keywords

EID: 61349166511     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1070.0331     Document Type: Article

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