Organizing Documents: Standard Forms, Person Production and Organizational Action

Qualitative Sociology

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 205-229

  Kameo, Nahoko ^a   Whalen, Jack ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Documents; Ethnography; Interaction; Organizations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937763708     PISSN: 01620436     EISSN: 15737837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11133-015-9302-7     Document Type: Article

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