Fantasies about work as limitless potential - how managers and employees seduce each other through dynamics of mutual recognition

Human Relations

Volumn 66, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1159-1181

  Ekman, Susanne ^a  

^a Copenhagen Business School ^*  (Denmark)

Author keywords

creative industries; critical management studies; emotion in organizations; identity; job employee attitudes; motivation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883159893     PISSN: 00187267     EISSN: 1741282X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018726712461812     Document Type: Article

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