Enlarging the Strategy-as-Practice Research Agenda: Towards Taller and Flatter Ontologies

Organization Studies

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1407-1421

  Seidl, David ^a   Whittington, Richard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

macro; methodology; micro; ontology; practice; strategy; strategy as practice

Indexed keywords

EID: 84910597835     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840614541886     Document Type: Article

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