Conversation as mechanism: Emergence in creative groups

Analytical Sociology and Social Mechanisms

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 78-96

  Sawyer, Keith ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511921315.005     Document Type: Chapter

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