Not all identifications are created equal: Exploring employee accounts for workgroup, organizational, and professional identification

Organization Science

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 778-800

  Vough, Heather ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Organizational identity and identification; Qualitative research

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863106544     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1110.0654     Document Type: Article

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