Managing to beat death: The narrative construction process

Journal of Organizational Change Management

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 442-463

  Hansen, Hans ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Change; Death penalty; Decision making; Ethnography; Ethnonarrative; Narratives; United States of America

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960619877     PISSN: 09534814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09534811111144610     Document Type: Article

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