Technologizing Discourse to Standardize Projects in Multi-Project Organizations: Hegemony by Consensus?

Organization

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 101-121

  Räisänen, Christine ^a   Linde, Anneli ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Actor networks; Critical discourse analysis; Discursive practices; Post bureaucracy; Power distribution; Project management models

Indexed keywords

EID: 1642580728     PISSN: 13505084     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350508404039660     Document Type: Article

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