Changing institutions: Critical management studies as a social movement

Dialogues in Critical Management Studies

Volumn 2, Issue , 2013, Pages 123-163

  Willmott, Hugh ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Critical management studies; Institutional change; Institutional theory; Management education; Social movement theory; Social theory of hegemony

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893386574     PISSN: 20466072     EISSN: 20466080     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1108/S2046-6072(2013)0000002011     Document Type: Chapter

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