‘We have always been oligarchs’: Business elite in polyarchy

The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Behavior: Volume II - Macro Approaches

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 424-441

  Courpasson, David ^a  

^a EMLYON BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

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DOI: 10.4135/9781849200455.n26     Document Type: Chapter

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