Knowing work through the communication of difference: A revised agenda for difference studies

Reframing Difference in Organizational Communication Studies: Research, Pedagogy, Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 3-30

  Ashcraft, Karen Lee ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4135/9781452230467.n1     Document Type: Chapter

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