From binarism back to hybridity: A postcolonial reading of management and organization studies

Organization Studies

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 855-876

  Frenkel, Michal ^a   Shenhav, Yehouda ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Critical management studies; Culture; Hybridity; Imperial bureaucracy; Management and organization studies; Orientalism; Postcolonialism; Purification

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745040020     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840606064086     Document Type: Review

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