Managerial work and gender-Ethnography of cooperative relationships in small software companies

Scandinavian Journal of Management

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 354-363

  Eriksson, Päivi ^a   Henttonen, Elina ^b   Meriläinen, Susan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAPLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Cooperative relationships; Ethnography; Gender; ICT; Managerial work; Software business

Indexed keywords

EID: 56549110509     PISSN: 09565221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scaman.2008.09.001     Document Type: Article

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