The communicative achievement of collective minding: Analysis of Board Meeting Excerpts

Management Communication Quarterly

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 517-551

  Cooren, François ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

collective mind; conversation analysis; distributed cognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84990353495     PISSN: 08933189     EISSN: 15526798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0893318903262242     Document Type: Article

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