Business planning as pedagogy: Language and control in a changing institutional field

Administrative Science Quarterly

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 257-292

  Oakes, Leslie S ^a   Townley, Barbara ^a   Cooper, David J ^a  

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EID: 0032220692     PISSN: 00018392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2393853     Document Type: Article

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