A consulting diaspora? Enterprising selves as agents of enterprise

Organization

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 427-444

  Sturdy, Andrew ^a   Wright, Christopher ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Enterprise; Management consultants; Management idea promotion; Organizational change

Indexed keywords

EID: 42149118957     PISSN: 13505084     EISSN: 14617323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350508408088538     Document Type: Article

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