In the middle of managers: Occupational communities, global ethnography and the multinationals

Ethnography

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 346-360

  Peltonen, Tuomo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b NONE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Ethnography; Globalization; Multinational corporations; Occupational communities; Post industrialism

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548621749     PISSN: 14661381     EISSN: 17412714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1466138107081028     Document Type: Article

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