Rethinking Hybridity in Postcolonial Contexts: What Changes and What Persists? The Tunisian case of Poulina's managers

Organization Studies

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 393-421

  Yousfi, Hèla ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DAUPHINE   (France)

Author keywords

case study; critical management studies; cross cultural studies; discursive analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894541077     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840613499751     Document Type: Article

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