Performing Sales: Material Scripts and the Social Organization of Obligation

Organization Studies

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1601-1621

  Darr, Asaf ^a   Pinch, Trevor ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

Author keywords

market performances; materiality; obligation; sales work; scripts; sociology of markets

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886630757     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840612470228     Document Type: Article

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