Masking subversion: Neocolonial embeddedness in anthropological accounts of indigenous management

Human Relations

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 221-247

  Banerjee, Subhabrata Bobby ^a,b   Linstead, Stephen ^c,d  

^a Department of Strategic Management ^*  (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anthropology; Ecological embeddedness; Indigenous; Management; Organization; Postcolonial

Indexed keywords

EID: 2942622615     PISSN: 00187267     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018726704042928     Document Type: Article

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