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Book Title: Narrating The Organization: Dramas Of Institutional Identity
Number of Pages: 242 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Narrating the Organization : Dramas of Institutional Identity
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Subject: Organizational Behavior, Public Affairs & Administration, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Economics / Theory, Corporate & Business History
Publication Year: 1997
Item Height: 0.1 in
Item Weight: 15.8 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Political Science, Social Science, Business & Economics
Author: Barbara. Czarniawska
Item Length: 0.9 in
Series: New Practices of Inquiry Ser.
Item Width: 0.6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
