The game of exemplarity: Subjectivity, work and the impossible politics of purity

Scandinavian Journal of Management

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 403-423

  Ten Bos, René ^a   Rhodes, Carl ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Exemplary workers; Organisational culture; Subjectivity; Trespassing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0242382622     PISSN: 09565221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0956-5221(03)00054-X     Document Type: Article

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