New Sites/Sights: Exploring the White Spaces of Organization

Abstract

In this introduction we seek to establish and position the distinctiveness of our approach to what we claim to be 'white spaces' in organization, an approach that compels a significant breaching of the disciplinary norms of organization studies. We derive our argument from a

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