Critical Theory and its Contribution to Critical Management Studies

The Oxford Handbook of Critical Management Studies

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Scherer, Andreas Georg ^a,b  

^a Institute of Organization and Administrative Science (IOU)   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Critical theory; Labour process theory; Management; Organization studies; Philosophical tradition; Theoretical foundations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924874368     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199595686.013.0002     Document Type: Chapter

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