Introducing " Perspectives on Process Organization Studies"

Process, Sensemaking, and Organizing

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Langley, Ann ^a   Tsoukas, H ^b,c  

^a HEC MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Becoming; Narrative; Process metaphysics; Process theory; Variance theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920394279     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199594566.003.0001     Document Type: Chapter

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