Empowerment Redux: Structure, Agency, and the Remaking of Managerial Authority

American Journal of Sociology

Volumn 111, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1677-1717

  Vallas, Steven Peter ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33645920070     PISSN: 00029602     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/499909     Document Type: Article

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