Relaxing the taboo on telling our own stories: Upholding professional distance and personal involvement

Organization Science

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1277-1290

  Anteby, Michel ^a  

^a HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Distance; Fieldwork; Involvement; Research practices; Taboo

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880967702     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1120.0777     Document Type: Article

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