Organisational control as cultural practice-A shop floor ethnography of a Sheffield steel mill

Accounting, Organizations and Society

Volumn 32, Issue 4-5, 2007, Pages 305-331

  Ahrens, Thomas ^a   Mollona, Massimiliano ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 33847015975     PISSN: 03613682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aos.2006.08.001     Document Type: Article

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