Business is Show Business: Management Presentations as Performance

Journal of Management Studies

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 619-645

  Biehl Missal, Brigitte ^a  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 79953053246     PISSN: 00222380     EISSN: 14676486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6486.2010.00931.x     Document Type: Article

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