Organization as an (imbricated) configuring of transactions

Organization Studies

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1273-1294

  Taylor, James R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

communication; identity and personhood; imbrication; precedence and authority; text; transaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052672241     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840611411396     Document Type: Article

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