Simplexity: Sensemaking, organizing and storytelling for our time

Human Relations

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 5-15

  Colville, Ian ^a   Brown, Andrew D ^b   Pye, Annie ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

change; organizing; sensemaking; simplexity; storytelling; Weick

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855557780     PISSN: 00187267     EISSN: 1741282X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018726711425617     Document Type: Article

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