Solid intentions: An archival ethnography of corporate architecture and organizational remembering

Organization

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 514-542

  Decker, Stephanie ^a  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Archival ethnography; history; modernist architecture; organizational remembering; organizational space

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907076706     PISSN: 13505084     EISSN: 14617323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350508414527252     Document Type: Article

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