Unsettling assumptions and boundaries: Strategies for developing a critical perspective about business and management communication

Business Communication Quarterly

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 45-59

  Cockburn Wootten, Cheryl ^a   Cockburn, Tom ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^b NONE

Author keywords

business and management communication; critical theory; lecture learning groups; pedagogy; trained incapacities

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952075157     PISSN: 10805699     EISSN: 15524191     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1080569910395563     Document Type: Article

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