Historicising knowledge-intensive organizations: The case of Bletchley Park

Management and Organizational History

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 131-150

  Grey, Christopher ^a,b   Sturdy, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bletchley Park; Government Communication and Cypher School; History; Knowledge intensive organizations; Organizational analysis; Signals intelligence

Indexed keywords

EID: 65449182747     PISSN: 17449359     EISSN: 17449367     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1744935909102905     Document Type: Article

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