Critical Management Studies and Business Ethics: A Synthesis and Three Research Trajectories for the Coming Decade

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 94, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2010, Pages 227-237

  Prasad, Ajnesh ^a   Mills, Albert J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b SAINT MARY S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

business ethics; critical management studies; denaturalization; performativity; reflexivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 79954610470     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-011-0753-9     Document Type: Article

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