Cold War political culture and the return of systems rationality

Human Relations

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 637-663

  Landau, Ori ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cold War; Ethnocentrism; Hybridization; Managerial power; Organizational discourse; Systems rationality

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745294120     PISSN: 00187267     EISSN: 1741282X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018726706066553     Document Type: Article

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