Tales from the fields: Sources of employee identification in agribusiness

Management Communication Quarterly

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 360-395

  Reynolds, Cassandra M ^a   Griffin, Michael ^a   Johanningmeier, Angela R ^a   Andrade, Paulina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

employee identification; identification sources; organizational identification

Indexed keywords

EID: 84990403671     PISSN: 08933189     EISSN: 15526798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0893318903258169     Document Type: Article

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