The Formative Context of Organizational Hierarchies and Discourse: Implications for Organizational Change and Gender Relations

Gender, Work and Organization

Volumn 18, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2011, Pages

  Crawford, Janet Bell ^a   Mills, Albert J ^a  

^a SAINT MARY S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Change; Context; Discourse; Gender relations

Indexed keywords

GENDER RELATIONS; ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE; SOCIAL THEORY; WOMENS STATUS; WORKING CONDITIONS;

EID: 80051979050     PISSN: 09686673     EISSN: 14680432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0432.2009.00470.x     Document Type: Article

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