Organizational approaches to inequality: Inertia, relative power, and environments

Annual Review of Sociology

Volumn 36, Issue , 2010, Pages 225-247

  Stainback, Kevin ^a   Tomaskovic Devey, Donald ^b   Skaggs, Sheryl ^c  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

employment discrimination; organizational environments; organizational inertia; stratification

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955618996     PISSN: 03600572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-soc-070308-120014     Document Type: Article

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