Beyond the Ivory Towers: Organizational Power Practices and a“Practical” Critical Postmodernism

The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 169-185

  Voronov, Maxim ^a   Coleman, Peter T ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals

Author keywords

application; critical management studies; critical theory; postmodernism; power

Indexed keywords

EID: 84990328672     PISSN: 00218863     EISSN: 15526879     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0021886303255560     Document Type: Article

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