Knowledge-Sharing, Control, Compliance and Symbolic Violence

Organization Studies

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 989-1012

  Kamoche, Ken ^a   Kannan, Selvi ^b   Siebers, Lisa Qixun ^c  

^a NOTTINGHAM UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bourdieu; compliance; control; knowledge; resistance; symbolic violence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84902977264     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840614525325     Document Type: Article

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