Management fashion as image-spectacle: The Production of Best-Selling Management Books

Management Communication Quarterly

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 396-424

  Greatbatch, David ^b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

management fashion; management gurus; spectacle

Indexed keywords

EID: 84990338792     PISSN: 08933189     EISSN: 15526798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0893318903257979     Document Type: Article

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