Returning to practice anew: A life-world perspective

Organization Studies

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1349-1368

  Sandberg, Jörgen ^a   Dall'Alba, Gloria ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Life world; Phenomenology; Practice; Strategy

Indexed keywords

EID: 74849133796     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840609349872     Document Type: Article

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