The undecided space of ethics in organizational surveillance

Organization Studies

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 199-217

  Iedema, Rick ^a   Rhodes, Carl ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Discipline; Ethics; Reflexivity; Subjectivity; Surveillance; Video ethnography

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949346856     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840609347128     Document Type: Article

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