Strategic planning as communicative process

Organization Studies

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1217-1245

  Spee, A Paul ^a   Jarzabkowski, Paula ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

decontextualization; organizational communication; recontextualization; strategic planning

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052667078     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840611411387     Document Type: Article

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