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Human Relations

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 547-566

  Hardy, Cynthia ^a   Grant, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

discourse analysis; language; organizational discourse theory; organizational studies; problematization; theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860500696     PISSN: 00187267     EISSN: 1741282X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018726711435181     Document Type: Article

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