Polystructurational Social Space: The Final Frontier.
We explore a discourse structurational approach and employ a planetary system metaphor in order to examine complex business networks within contemporary globalizing, consumer cultures. This conceptual/commentary paper reviews discourse structuration and employs a celestial metaphor to comment on str...
| Publicado en: | Tamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry Vol. 20; no. 1; pp. 1 - 24 |
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TAMARA: Journal of Critical Postmodern Organization Science
2022
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