Articulating circumstance, identity and practice: Toward a discursive framework of organizational changing

Organization

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 45-64

  Jian, Guowei ^a  

^a CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

discourse analysis; identity; meeting; organizational becoming; organizational change; organizational changing; organizational communication; organizational discourse; practice; process theory; sensemaking

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951472576     PISSN: 13505084     EISSN: 14617323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350508410373672     Document Type: Article

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