On the ethnographic part of the mix: A multi-genre tale of the field

Organizational Research Methods

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 286-303

  Agar, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Abduction; Change; Complexity theory; Ethnography; Recursion

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949556973     PISSN: 10944281     EISSN: 15527425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1094428109340040     Document Type: Article

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