Sherlock Holmes and the adventure of the rational manager: Organizational reason and its discontents

Scandinavian Journal of Management

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 162-172

  Kociatkiewicz, Jerzy ^a   Kostera, Monika ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Warsaw   (Poland)

^c LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Detective stories; Imagination; Narratives; Rationality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860836452     PISSN: 09565221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scaman.2012.01.003     Document Type: Article

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