The Fact of Fiction in Organizational Ethnography

1979/12/01 by John Van Maanen · 1,254 citations
Business, Management and Accounting · #Anthropology #Epistemology #Ethnography #Management and Organizational Studies #Philosophy #Sociology

paper · doi:10.2307/2392360

published in Administrative Science Quarterly 24(4), 539 (SAGE Publishing)

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