Strategy as text and discursive practice: A genre-based approach to strategizing in city administration

Discourse and Communication

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 303-318

  Pälli, Pekka ^a   Vaara, Eero ^b   Sorsa, Virpi ^b  

^a HELSINKI SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Finland)

^b HANKEN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Finland)

Author keywords

Conversation; Critical discourse analysis; Genre; Intersubjectivity; Intertextuality; Organization

Indexed keywords

EID: 69949124262     PISSN: 17504813     EISSN: 17504821     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1750481309337206     Document Type: Article

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