Shop floor practices under changing forms of managerial control: A comparative ethnographic study of micro-politics, control and resistance within a Japanese multinational

Journal of International Management

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 318-339

  Sharpe, Diana Rosemary ^a  

^a MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contextual rationality; Control and resistance; Micro politics; Multinational ethnography

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749067388     PISSN: 10754253     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intman.2006.06.003     Document Type: Article

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