Material artifacts: Practices for doing strategy with 'stuff'

European Management Journal

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 41-54

  Jarzabkowski, Paula ^a   Paul Spee, Andreas ^a,b   Smets, Michael ^a  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Epistemic objects; Strategizing; Strategy as practice

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872498292     PISSN: 02632373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.emj.2012.09.001     Document Type: Article

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