On the cultural locus of management theory industry: Perspectives from autocommunication

Management and Organizational History

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 427-443

  Ahonen, Ari ^a,b   Kallio, Tomi J ^b  

^a Finnish Competition Authority   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Autocommunication; Discourse; Management history; Organization theory; Theory industry

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350633126     PISSN: 17449359     EISSN: 17449367     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1744935909342324     Document Type: Article

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