Organizing disciplinary power in a knowledge organization

Scandinavian Journal of Management

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 178-190

  Bergström, Ola ^a   Hasselbladh, Hans ^b   Kärreman, Dan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Consultants; Disciplinary power; Knowledge work; Performance appraisal

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349281465     PISSN: 09565221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scaman.2008.12.004     Document Type: Article

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