Relational identities in organizations: Healthy versus unhealthy

Relational Perspectives in Organizational Studies: A Research Companion

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 8-27

  Ashforth, Blake E ^a   Sluss, David M ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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