Constituting change and stability: Sense-making stories in a farming organization

Organization

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 443-462

  Peirano Vejo, Maria Elisa ^a,b   Stablein, Ralph E ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b NONE   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Change; Reflexivity; Sense giving; Sense making; Storytelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 65249109991     PISSN: 13505084     EISSN: 14617323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350508409102306     Document Type: Article

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