Contradictions of Democracy in a Workers' Cooperative

Organization Studies

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 183-208

  Varman, Rahul ^a   Chakrabarti, Manali ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

^b JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Contradiction; Democratic process; Organizational democracy; Workers' cooperative

Indexed keywords

EID: 1442329705     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840604036913     Document Type: Review

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