Subjects of Inquiry: Statistics, Stories, and the Production of Knowledge

Organization Studies

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1693-1714

  Ainsworth, Susan ^a   Hardy, Cynthia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

discursive conventions; epistemic subjects; knowledge; power knowledge; public inquiries

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870868074     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840612457616     Document Type: Article

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