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Managing discursive tension: the co-existence of individualist and collaborative discourses in flight centre

Dunford, R.; Palmer, I. (Blackwell Publishing, 2004)

Our study of the travel agency Flight Centre began as a case study of a company that appears to be a 'success story' in what is a highly competitive industry. In the course of our study we found that inscribed in Flight ...
Managing for high performance? People management practices in flight centre

Palmer, I.; Dunford, R. (Blackwell Science, 2001)

The travel industry is characterised by fierce rivalry, high threat of entry by would-be competitors, high supplier and consumer power and a developing threat of substitutes (especially online). However; despite this, ...
Who says change can be managed? Positions, perspectives and problematics

Dunford, R.; Palmer, I. (John Wiley and Sons Inc, 2003)

We pick up a current challenge in the change management literature - whether change can be managed. The answer to this question depends upon the underlying image one has of both managing and change. • We develop a model ...

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