Appropriation, manipulation, and silence: A critical hermeneutic analysis of the management textbook as a tool of the corporate discourse

Management and Organizational History

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 408-427

  McLaren, Patricia Genoe ^a   Mills, Jean Helms ^b  

^a WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b SAINT MARY S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

civil rights movement; corporate discourse; feminist revolution; management history

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956124067     PISSN: 17449359     EISSN: 17449367     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1744935909360818     Document Type: Article

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