Storytelling in management practice: Dynamics and implications

Storytelling in Management Practice: Dynamics and implications

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1-185

  Reissner, Stefanie ^a   Pagan, Victoria ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

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