Popular critiques of consultancy and a politics of management learning?

Management Learning

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 457-463

  Sturdy, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Knowledge; Management consultancy; Management learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349308131     PISSN: 13505076     EISSN: 14617307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350507609339686     Document Type: Article

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