The Calculated and the Avowed: Techniques of Discipline and Struggles Over Identity in Big Six Public Accounting Firms
- 1 June 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in Administrative Science Quarterly
- Vol. 43 (2), 293-327
- https://doi.org/10.2307/2393854
Abstract
An ethnographic field study in Big Six public accounting firms, where management by objectives and mentoring are used as techniques of control, examines how org...This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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