Opening the black box of the organization: Socio-material practices of geopolitical ordering

Political Geography

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 379-388

  Müller, Martin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Actor network theory (ANT); Critical geopolitics; Materiality; Organizations; Performance

Indexed keywords

GEOPOLITICS; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; POLITICAL IDEOLOGY; POLITICAL ORGANIZATION; POLITICAL POWER; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 84865082568     PISSN: 09626298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2012.06.001     Document Type: Article

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