'Totally Un-Australian!': Discursive and Institutional Interplay in the Melbourne Port Dispute of 1997-98

Journal of Management Studies

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1729-1760

  Selsky, John W ^a   Spicer, André ^b   Teicher, Julian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b NONE

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EID: 0242350884     PISSN: 00222380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-6486.00398     Document Type: Review

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