At the sharp end of new organizational ideologies: Ethnography and the study of multinationals

Ethnography

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 324-344

  Hassard, John ^a,b,d   McCann, Leo ^b   Morris, Jonathan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Belonging; Communities; Comparative international management; Ethnography; Ideology; Varieties of capitalism

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548625211     PISSN: 14661381     EISSN: 17412714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1466138107081041     Document Type: Article

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