Having to be: The possessive constitution of organization

Human Relations

Volumn 64, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1579-1607

  Bencherki, Nicolas ^a   Cooren, François ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

action; appropriation; attribution; communicative constitution of organization; having; narratology; philosophy of individuation

Indexed keywords

EID: 82355170053     PISSN: 00187267     EISSN: 1741282X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018726711424227     Document Type: Article

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