In deep waters: Process theory between scylla and charybdis

Organization

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 655-672

  Weik, Elke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

activity; Aristotle; becoming; ontology; organizational change; potentiality; process theory; relationality; substance; Whitehead

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052384766     PISSN: 13505084     EISSN: 14617323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350508410395983     Document Type: Article

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