Going Public: The Emergence and Effects of Soft Bureaucracy Within a Knowledge-Intensive Firm

Organization

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 123-148

  Robertson, Maxine ^a   Swan, Jacky ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Knowledge work; Organizational change; Politics; Power

Indexed keywords

EID: 1642458334     PISSN: 13505084     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350508404039661     Document Type: Article

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