Organizational inquiry as a rhetorical process: The role of tropes in organizational theory and methods

Electronic Journal of Business Research Methods

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 46-62

  Green, Sandy ^a   Alpaslan, C Murat ^b   Mitroff, Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Method; Positivism; Rhetoric; Semiotics; Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890141059     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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