How constructions of the future shape organizational responses: Climate change and the Canadian oil sands

Organization

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 722-742

  Lê, Jane K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate change; future; oil sands; social construction; strategy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884140731     PISSN: 13505084     EISSN: 14617323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350508413489817     Document Type: Article

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