Rethinking Identity Construction Processes in Organizations: Three Questions to Consider1

Constructing Identity in and around Organizations

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Pratt, Michael G ^a  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Identity processes; Organizational self; Organizational self processes; Processes about identity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920462900     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199640997.003.0002     Document Type: Chapter

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