When Democratic Principles are not Enough: Tensions and Temporalities of Dialogic Stakeholder Engagement
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Stakeholder engagement; Stakeholder dialogue; Dialogic theory; Consumer-owned cooperative; Social accounting; Critical dialogic accounting; Dialogic accounting;All these keywords.
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