Management: The work that dares not speak its name

Management Learning

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 7-19

  Brocklehurst, Michael ^a   Grey, Chris ^b   Sturdy, Andrew ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Elites; Management; Managerial identity; MBA; Post bureaucracy; Status

Indexed keywords

EID: 76549110023     PISSN: 13505076     EISSN: 14617307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350507609347590     Document Type: Article

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