Working at the boundaries: Middle managerial work as a source of emancipation and alienation

The current article examines the experience of middle management through the concept of boundary work, characterized as the work of negotiating between multiple roles in the interstices of organizational groups. Through an ethnographic study of a Brazilian accounting firm, we explore the ambivalent...

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Published in:	Human relations (New York) Vol. 72; no. 3; pp. 534 - 564
Main Authors:	Azambuja, Ricardo, Islam, Gazi
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	London, England SAGE Publications 01.03.2019 SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
Subjects:	Accounting firms Alienation Ambivalence Autonomy Belonging Business administration Coordination Disengagement Emancipation Empowerment Ethnography Fatigue Human relations Humanities and Social Sciences Job characteristics Managers Middle management Multiple roles Reflexivity Roles Self determination Work Brazil boundary objects Brazil experience of work boundary subjects ethnography politics of everyday life
ISSN:	0018-7267, 1741-282X
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