Songs of Ourselves: Employees' Deployment of Social Identity in Workplace Encounters

Journal of Management Inquiry

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 391-412

  Creed, W E Douglas ^a   Scully, Maureen A ^a,b  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Simmons Graduate School of Management   (United States)

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EID: 0034356279     PISSN: 10564926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/105649260000900410     Document Type: Article

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