'one mirror in another': Managing diversity and the discourse of fashion

Human Relations

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 703-724

  Prasad, Anshuman ^a   Prasad, Pushkala ^b   Mir, Raza ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAVEN   (United States)

^b SKIDMORE COLLEGE   (United States)

^c WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

imitation; management fashion; multi sited ethnography; organizational discourse; organizational isomorphism; workplace diversity

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955114907     PISSN: 00187267     EISSN: 1741282X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018726710386511     Document Type: Article

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