Future-oriented sensemaking: Temporalities and institutional legitimation

2010-01-01
Gephart, Robert
Topal, Çağrı
Zhang, Zhen

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Citation Formats
R. Gephart, Ç. Topal, and Z. Zhang, Future-oriented sensemaking: Temporalities and institutional legitimation. 2010, p. 302.