Gurus, hired guns, and warm bodies

Barley, Stephen R.

Gurus, hired guns, and warm bodies itinerant experts in a knowlege economy / [electronic resource] : Stephen R. Barley and Gideon Kunda. - Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2004. - vii, 342 p. : ill.

Second printing and first paperback printing, 2006.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-332) and index.

pt. 1. Setting the stage -- pt. 2. Life in the market -- pt. 3. Life on the job -- pt. 4. Living the cycle.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
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