Working at a cynical distance: Implications for power, subjectivity and resistance

Organization

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 157-179

  Fleming, Peter ^a   Spicer, André ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Corporate culture; Cynicism; Power; Resistance; Subjectivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038808746     PISSN: 13505084     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350508403010001376     Document Type: Article

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