Walking the tightrope: Constructing gender and professional identities in account management

Journal of Management and Organization

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 596-610

  Gremmen, Ine ^a   Benschop, Yvonne ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Account management; Critical discourse analysis; Doing gender; Identity work; Professional identities account management; Social construction feminism

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953893871     PISSN: 18333672     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5172/jmo.15.5.596     Document Type: Article

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