Trick or treat? Autonomy as control in knowledge work

Management Labour Process and Software Development: Reality bytes

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 100-122

  Rasmussen, Bente ^a,b   Johansen, Birgitte ^c  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b SINTEF   (Norway)

^c NONE

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EID: 47649116911     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203502952     Document Type: Chapter

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