The sublime object of entrepreneurship

Organization

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 223-246

  Jones, Campbell ^a   Spicer, André ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Du Gay; Entrepreneurship; Foucault; Lacan; The Other; The Real; The Subject; i ek

Indexed keywords

EID: 17444384160     PISSN: 13505084     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350508405051189     Document Type: Article

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