A Meta-Analysis of Workplace Ethnographies: Race, Gender, and Employee Attitudes and Behaviors

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 4-38

  Hodson, Randy ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethnography; Gender; Organizations; Qualitative comparative analysis; Race

Indexed keywords

EID: 1642496791     PISSN: 08912416     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0891241603259808     Document Type: Review

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