Operationalizing cultural political economy: towards critical grounded theory

Journal of Organizational Ethnography

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 324-340

  Belfrage, Claes Axel ^a   Hauf, Felix ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL MANAGEMENT SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Critical discourse analysis; Critical Grounded Theory; Critical realism; Cultural political economy; Methodology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84958545772     PISSN: 20466749     EISSN: 20466757     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/JOE-01-2015-0002     Document Type: Article

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