Makin' it, by keeping it real: Street talk, rap music, and the forgotten entrepreneurship from "the 'hood"

Group and Organization Management

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 50-78

  Sköld, David ^a   Rehn, Alf ^b  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Entrepreneurial discourses; Hip hop culture; Rap music; iz ek

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845971889     PISSN: 10596011     EISSN: 15523993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1059601106294487     Document Type: Article

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