Typecasting and Generalism in Firm and Market: Genre-Based Career Concentration in the Feature Film Industry, 1933-1995

Research in the Sociology of Organizations

Volumn 23, Issue , 2005, Pages 171-214

  Zuckerman, Ezra W ^a  

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EID: 33645917358     PISSN: 0733558X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0733-558X(05)23005-7     Document Type: Review

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