Take my word for it: How professional vocabularies foster organizing

Journal of Professions and Organization

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 65-83

  Loewenstein, Jeffrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

borrowing; categories; division of linguistic labor; jurisdictions; organizing; professions; vocabularies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920993123     PISSN: 20518803     EISSN: 20518811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jpo/jot004     Document Type: Article

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