The fox and the hedgehog go to work: A natural history of workplace collusion

Management Communication Quarterly

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 344-363

  Sewell, Graham ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Irony; Politics; Power; Resistance

Indexed keywords

EID: 46649121474     PISSN: 08933189     EISSN: 15526798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0893318907310944     Document Type: Article

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