An empirical study of bureaucratic and post-bureaucratic characteristics in 90 workplaces

Economic and Industrial Democracy

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 541-564

  Bolin, Malin ^a   Härenstam, Annika ^b  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Division of labour; Flexibility; Management; Organization; Working arrangements

Indexed keywords

EID: 54249094147     PISSN: 0143831X     EISSN: 14617099     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0143831X08096228     Document Type: Article

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