Managing identity: Identity work, personal predicaments and structural circumstances

Organization

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 121-143

  Watson, Tony J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Case study; Ethnography; Identity work; Managerial identity; Self identity; Social identity; Sociological imagination

Indexed keywords

EID: 36949006737     PISSN: 13505084     EISSN: 14617323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350508407084488     Document Type: Article

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