Telling tales of relations: Appreciating relational constructionism

Organization Studies

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 47-65

  Hosking, Dian Marie ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

dialogue; processes; relational constructionism; soft self other differentiation; subject object relations

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951877607     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840610394296     Document Type: Article

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