A narrative approach to strategy-as-practice

Business History

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1143-1167

  Brown, Andrew ^a   Thompson, Edmund ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

narrative; reflexivity; story; strategy as practice

Indexed keywords

RESEARCH; STRATEGIC APPROACH;

EID: 84886388211     PISSN: 00076791     EISSN: 17437938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00076791.2013.838031     Document Type: Article

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