Multinational corporations' politics and resistance to plant shutdowns: A comparative case study in the south of France

Human Relations

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 363-384

  Contu, Alessia ^a   Palpacuer, Florence ^b   Balas, Nicolas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

discourse theory; hegemony; neo Gramscian theory; shutdowns; social antagonism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874606599     PISSN: 00187267     EISSN: 1741282X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018726712469547     Document Type: Article

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