Framing contests: Strategy making under uncertainty

Organization Science

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 729-752

  Kaplan, Sarah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognition; Cognitive frames; Framing; Politics; Social movements; Strategy as practice; Strategy making; Strategy process

Indexed keywords

EID: 61349176858     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1070.0340     Document Type: Article

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