The invention of transitions: History as a symbolic site for discursive struggles over organizational change

Organization

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 495-513

  Ybema, Sierk ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Business history; discourse; ethnography; future; organizational change; rhetorical history; time

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907083543     PISSN: 13505084     EISSN: 14617323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350508414527255     Document Type: Article

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