Management control in bureaucratic and postbureaucratic organizations: A Lacanian perspective

Group and Organization Management

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 635-656

  Styhre, Alexander ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Friedrich Kittler; Jacques Lacan; Management control; Postbureaucracies; The imaginary; The symbolic

Indexed keywords

EID: 55449101689     PISSN: 10596011     EISSN: 15523993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1059601108325697     Document Type: Review

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