The appropriated language: Dominant stories as a source of organizational inertia

Human Relations

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 89-110

  Näslund, Lovisa ^a   Pemer, Frida ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Sweden)

Author keywords

hegemony; inertia; semantics; sensemaking; storytelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855556946     PISSN: 00187267     EISSN: 1741282X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018726711424322     Document Type: Article

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