Transforming creative potential in project networks: How TV movies are produced under network-based control

Critical Sociology

Volumn 33, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 19-42

  Manning, Stephan ^a   Sydow, Jörg ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Creative work; Labor transformation; Network organizing; Project network; Project organizing; Structuration theory; TV movie production

Indexed keywords

EID: 34147206065     PISSN: 08969205     EISSN: 15691632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156916307X168575     Document Type: Review

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