Refining shadowing methods for studying managerial work

The Work of Managers: Towards a Practice Theory of Management

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Arman, Rebecka ^a   Vie, Ola Edvin ^b   Åsvoll, Håvard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Abduction; Managerial work; Semi structured observations; Shadowing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884528235     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199639724.003.0016     Document Type: Chapter

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