Management as a technical practice: Professionalisation or responsibilisation?

The Foundations of Management Knowledge

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 44-65

  Grey, Christopher ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Social Anthropology   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203930038     Document Type: Chapter

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