Managerial organization and professional autonomy: A discourse-based conceptualization

Organization Studies

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1373-1393

  Thomas, Pete ^a   Hewitt, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

articulation; discourse; managerialism; professions

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053949887     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840611416739     Document Type: Article

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