Zooming in and out: Studying practices by switching theoretical lenses and trailing connections

Organization Studies

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1391-1418

  Nicolini, Davide ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Organizational theory; Practice theory; Processualism; Relationalism; Study of work; Telemedicine

Indexed keywords

EID: 74849125985     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840609349875     Document Type: Article

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