Constructing social reality in organizational decision making: Account Vocabularies in a Diversity Discussion

Management Communication Quarterly

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 479-508

  Castor, Theresa R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PARKSIDE   (United States)

Author keywords

decision making; diversity; social constructionism; university

Indexed keywords

EID: 84990365088     PISSN: 08933189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0893318904273689     Document Type: Article

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