Members' responses to organizational identity threats: Encountering and countering the business week rankings

Administrative Science Quarterly

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 442-476

  Elsbach, Kimberly D ^a   Kramer, Roderick M ^a  

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DOI: 10.2307/2393938     Document Type: Article

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