Bruno Latour and Niklas Luhmann as organization theorists

European Management Journal

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 145-150

  Czarniawska, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Actor network theory; Autopoiesis; Latour; Luhmann

Indexed keywords

EID: 85014072018     PISSN: 02632373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.emj.2017.02.005     Document Type: Article

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