The aesthetics of management storytelling: A key to organizational learning

Essential Readings in Management Learning

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 404-422

  Taylor, Steven S ^a   Fisher, Dalmar ^a   Dufresne, Ronald L ^a  

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