Politics and strategy practice: An ethnomethodologically-informed discourse analysis perspective

Business History

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1168-1199

  Mueller, Frank ^a   Whittle, Andrea ^a   Gilchrist, Alan ^b   Lenney, Peter ^b  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY MANAGEMENT SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

discourse; ethnomethodology; politics; power; sensemaking; strategy; strategy as practice

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE; POLITICAL POWER; POLITICAL RELATIONS; POWER RELATIONS; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION;

EID: 84886386257     PISSN: 00076791     EISSN: 17437938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00076791.2013.838037     Document Type: Article

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