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Management practices give rise to a number of illusions and fantasies about how they relate to the real world. It inspires its diehard fans and its inventive gurus. It obsesses its weekend crit­ics, who say that a company is either a prison or a playground. But neither of these metaphors stands up to a closer scrutiny of executive rebellion.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. EMLYON Business School, France

    David Courpasson (Professor in Organizational Sociology)

  2. University Paris-Dauphine and CNRS, INSEAD, France

    Jean-Claude Thoenig (Research Director, Professor)

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Courpasson, D., Thoenig, JC. (2010). Management spaces. In: When Managers Rebel. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230289932_3

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