The good, the bad, and the ambivalent: Managing identification among Amway distributors

Administrative Science Quarterly

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 456-493

  Pratt, Michael G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

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DOI: 10.2307/2667106     Document Type: Article

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