Walking the talk? Gendered rhetoric vs. action in small firms

Organization Studies

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 63-91

  Cliff, Jennifer E ^a,d   Langton, Nancy ^b,e   Aldrich, Howard E ^c,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^f Department of Sociology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Entrepreneurship; Gender; Leadership; Organizational design; Rhetoric

Indexed keywords

EID: 26844456860     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840605046490     Document Type: Review

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