Moving management: Theorizing struggles against the hegemony of management

Organization Studies

Volumn 28, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1667-1698

  Spicer, André ^a,c   Böhm, Steffen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Civil society; Discourse; Hegemony; Management; Resistance; Social movements

Indexed keywords

EID: 35648956267     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840606082219     Document Type: Article

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