Organization as Information - a Space Odyssey

Organization Studies

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 801-824

  Child, John ^a   Ihrig, Martin ^b   Merali, Yasmin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Big Science; China; complexity; I Space; knowledge; social learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906737437     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840613515472     Document Type: Article

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