Experiencing gossip: The foundations for a theory of embedded organizational gossip

Group and Organization Management

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 213-240

  Mills, Colleen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Gossip; Informal communication; Organizational communication; Sensemaking

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952510489     PISSN: 10596011     EISSN: 15523993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1059601109360392     Document Type: Article

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