Commodity diversity: Smiling faces as a strategy of containment

Organization

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 77-100

  Swan, Elaine ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY MANAGEMENT SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diversity management; Mosaic; Racial difference; Visual culture; Visual imagery

Indexed keywords

EID: 73149102304     PISSN: 13505084     EISSN: 14617323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350508409350043     Document Type: Article

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