Foucault beyond Fairclough: From Transcendental to Immanent Critique in Organization Studies

Organization Studies

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1753-1772

  Curtis, Rowland ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

critical discourse analysis; critical realism; Foucault; immanent; transcendental

Indexed keywords

EID: 84912042057     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840614546150     Document Type: Article

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