Problematizing Mobility: A Metaphor of Stickiness, Non-Places and the Kinetic Elite

Organization Studies

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1467-1485

  Costas, Jana ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

kinetic elite; metaphor; mobility; non place; space; stickiness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884840169     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840613495324     Document Type: Article

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