Organizational restructuring and its consequences: Rhetorical and structural

Annual Review of Sociology

Volumn 32, Issue , 2006, Pages 171-189

  Hirsch, Paul M ^a   De Soucey, Michaela ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Downsizing; Efficiency; Labor; Management discourse; Organizations

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749174148     PISSN: 03600572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.soc.32.061604.123146     Document Type: Review

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