From iron cage to iron shield? How bureaucracy enables temporal flexibility for professional service workers

Organization Science

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 297-314

  Briscoe, Forrest ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bureaucracy; Client hand offs; Organizational processes; Professional service work; Temporal flexibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247549756     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1060.0226     Document Type: Article

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