Book Review: David Collins, Narrating the Management Guru: In search of Tom Peters

Yiannis Gabriel

(2008)

Yiannis Gabriel (2008) Book Review: David Collins, Narrating the Management Guru: In search of Tom Peters . Organization Studies, 29 (7). pp. 1064-1069. ISSN 0170-8406

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Narrating the Management Guru: In search of Tom Peters By David Collins, 2007. 168 pages, hard cover and ppb, London, Routledge Reviewed by Yiannis Gabriel, Royal Holloway University of London

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Item TypeJournal Article
TitleBook Review: David Collins, Narrating the Management Guru: In search of Tom Peters
AuthorsGabriel, Yiannis
DepartmentsFaculty of History and Social Science\Management

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doi10.1177/01708406080290070502

Deposited by Al Dean (ZSRA118) on 17-Feb-2010 in Royal Holloway Research Online.Last modified on 09-Jul-2010

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(C) 2008 SAGE Publications Ltd, whose permission to mount this version for private study and research is acknowledged.  The repository version is the author's final draft.

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