Transcending Socialization: A Nine-Year Ethnography of the Body's Role in Organizational Control and Knowledge Workers' Transformation

Administrative Science Quarterly

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 325-368

  Michel, Alexandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

body; knowledge work; organizational control; socialization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871815466     PISSN: 00018392     EISSN: 19303815     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0001839212437519     Document Type: Article

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