A narrative framework for management ideas: Disclosing the plots of knowledge management in a multinational company

Management Learning

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 165-181

  Corbett Etchevers, Isabelle ^a   Mounoud, Eléonore ^b  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b ECOLE CENTRALE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

consumption; emplotment; knowledge management; management ideas; narrative analysis; practice

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955123746     PISSN: 13505076     EISSN: 14617307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350507610394579     Document Type: Article

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