'Evidence Based Management', or 'Evidence Oriented Organizing'? A critical realist perspective

Organization

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 173-192

  Tourish, Dennis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

critical realism; evidence based management (EBM); evidence oriented organizing (EOO)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875102141     PISSN: 13505084     EISSN: 14617323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350508411435281     Document Type: Article

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