Organizational control: Restrictive or productive?

Journal of Management and Organization

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Seeck, Hannele ^a   Kantola, Anu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Disciplinary power; Foucault; Governmentality; Organizational control; Pastoral power; Subject

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953043283     PISSN: 18333672     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5172/jmo.837.15.2.241     Document Type: Article

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