The construction of gender and creativity in advertising creative departments

Gender in Management: An International Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 502-519

  Windels, Kasey ^a   Lee, WeiNa ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Advertising agency; Creative industries; Creativity; Doing gender; Gender

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868018267     PISSN: 17542413     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17542411211279706     Document Type: Article

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