Two to the power of three: An exploration of metaphor for sense making in (women's) collaborative inquiry

Organisation Management Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 13-25

  Grisoni, Louise ^a   Page, Margaret ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Collaborative inquiry; Gender; Journaling; Metaphors; Sibling relations; Ways of knowing

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952145087     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15416518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/omj.2010.8     Document Type: Article

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