The Self-Monitoring Organization: Minimizing Discrepancies among Differing Images of Organizational Identity

Corporate Reputation Review

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 208-221

  Price, Kristin ^a   Gioia, Dennis A ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

organization image; organizational identity; self monitoring

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054855140     PISSN: 13633589     EISSN: 14791889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/crr.2008.17     Document Type: Article

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