The 'long march' of the management modernizers: Ritual, rhetoric and rationality

Human Relations

Volumn 55, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1325-1354

  Carter, Chris ^a   Mueller, Frank ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Archetype; Bifurcation; Ceremony; Institutional isomorphism; Managerialism; Modernizers; Professional engineers; Rationality; Sedimentation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036851307     PISSN: 00187267     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018726702055011920     Document Type: Article

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