Storytelling and 'character': Victims, villains and heroes in a case of technological change

Organization

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 425-442

  Whittle, Andrea ^a   Mueller, Frank ^b   Mangan, Anita ^c  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Narrative; Organizational change; Self; Storytelling; Technological change

Indexed keywords

EID: 65249186089     PISSN: 13505084     EISSN: 14617323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350508409102305     Document Type: Article

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