Financial phantasmagoria: Corporate image-work in times of crisis

Organization

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 153-172

  de Cock, Christian ^a   Baker, Max ^b   Volkmann, Christina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cultural political economy; Finance capitalism; Global financial crisis

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953839284     PISSN: 13505084     EISSN: 14617323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350508410388681     Document Type: Article

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