Could a Subaltern Manage? Identity Work and Habitus in a Colonial Workplace

Organization Studies

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1655-1674

  Srinivas, Nidhi ^a  

^a NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Antonio Gramsci; autobiography; critical management studies; managerial identity; Pierre Bourdieu; postcolonial studies; Prakash Tandon; professions; social practices

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886620957     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840612467151     Document Type: Article

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