Role negotiations in a temporary organization: Making sense during role development in an educational theater production

Management Communication Quarterly

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 188-217

  Kramer, Michael W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Assimilation socialization; Ethnography; Role negotiations; Sensemaking; Temporary organization; Theater

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350328282     PISSN: 08933189     EISSN: 15526798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0893318909341410     Document Type: Article

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