From Modern to Postmodern Organizational Analysis

Organization Studies

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 1995, Pages 579-604

  Chia, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Descriptors: ontology of being; fallacy of misplaced concreteness; heterogeneous engineering; micro logics of organizing; thought style

Indexed keywords

EID: 84970369989     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/017084069501600406     Document Type: Article

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