Organizational discourse analysis - well done or too rare? a reply to our critics

Human Relations

Volumn 64, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1193-1202

  Alvesson, Mats ^a   Kärreman, Dan ^a,b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

Author keywords

communication; discourse analysis; methodology; ontology; organization studies

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052250759     PISSN: 00187267     EISSN: 1741282X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018726711408630     Document Type: Article

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