Translating management ideas: A discursive devices analysis

Organization Studies

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 187-210

  Mueller, Frank ^a   Whittle, Andrea ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

communication; dialogue; discourse; discursive devices; organizational change; transfer of ideas; translation

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952300768     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840610394308     Document Type: Article

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