Elitism: normative ethics of local organisation in community-based natural resources management

International Journal of Organizational Analysis

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 932-955

  Yadav, Bhagwan Dutta ^a   Bigsby, Hugh R ^a   MacDonald, Ian ^a  

^a LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

CBNRM; Elite model; Elite power; Local organisation; Organisational analysis; Power structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84995897441     PISSN: 19348835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/IJOA-06-2015-0873     Document Type: Article

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