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Authority and Autonomy: Paradoxes in Modern Knowledge Work 2012th Edition
Author(s): Susanne Ekman (Author)
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date: 18 Sept. 2012
- Edition: 2012th
- Language: English
- Print length: 260 pages
- ISBN-10: 023034822X
- ISBN-13: 9780230348226
Book Description
Offers a detailed and entertaining analysis of the daily interactions between managers and employees in creative knowledge intensive organizations. Based on vivid examples, the book shows how both managers and employees entertain contradictory understandings of their mutual commitment.
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About the Author
SUSANNE EKMAN is Assistant Professor at the Department of Organization, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. She holds an MA in Anthropology and a PhD in Management. She is primarily interested in the complex relationship between freedom and ethics and has recently pursued this issue ethnographically in the context of contemporary knowledge work.
