Managing the ambiguous and conflicting identities of ‘upline’ and ‘downline’ in a network marketing firm

Discourse Studies

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 49-74

  Kong, Kenneth C c ^a  

^a HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

co construction; conflict management; identity; network marketing; organizational discourse; talk organization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993731506     PISSN: 14614456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/14614456020040010301     Document Type: Article

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