'Girls' working together without 'teams': How to avoid the colonization of management language

Human Relations

Volumn 62, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1887-1906

  Learmonth, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ethnography; Hospital clerks; Management language; Teams; Women in organizations

Indexed keywords

EID: 70749130279     PISSN: 00187267     EISSN: 1741282X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018726709339097     Document Type: Article

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