Intersecting difference: A dialectical perspective

Reframing Difference in Organizational Communication Studies: Research, Pedagogy, Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 31-54

  Putnam, Linda L ^a   Jahn, Jody ^a   Baker, Jane Stuart ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4135/9781452230467.n2     Document Type: Chapter

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