Organizational culture and business history

Organization Studies

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 369-396

  Rowlinson, Michael ^a   Procter, Stephen ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Business history; Deconstruction; Ethnography; Organizational culture; Organizational symbolism; Post modernism

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039258418     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840699203001     Document Type: Article

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