Betwixt and between: Temporary employees as liminal subjects in flexible organizations

Organization Studies

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 601-617

  Garsten, Christina ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Flexible workforce; Liminality; Organizational change; Reflexivity; Subjectivity; Temporary work

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039730061     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840699204004     Document Type: Article

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