Dishing the dirt: Gossiping in organizations

Culture and Organization

Volumn 15, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 275-289

  Clegg, Stewart R ^a   van Iterson, Ad ^b  

^a Key Research Centre for Management and Organization Studies   (Australia)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Background conversations; Ethics in practice; Gossip; Narcissism of minor differences; Power

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949366322     PISSN: 14759551     EISSN: 14772760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14759550903119293     Document Type: Article

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