Re-turn to practice: An introductory essay

Organization Studies

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1309-1327

  Miettinen, Reijo ^a   Samra Fredericks, Dalvir ^b   Yanow, Dvora ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cultural historical activity theory; Ethnomethodology conversation analysis; Organizational ethnography; Phenomenology; Practice; Pragmatism

Indexed keywords

EID: 74849137808     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840609349860     Document Type: Article

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