Student Interns' Socially Constructed Work Realities: Narrowing the Work Expectation-Reality Gap

Business Communication Quarterly

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 271-290

  Barnett, Kathy ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

business communication; career development; internship; symbolic interactionism; work expectation reality gap

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865187929     PISSN: 10805699     EISSN: 15524191     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1080569912441360     Document Type: Article

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