Omega’s story: The heterogeneous engineering of a gendered professional self

Managing Professional Identities: Knowledge, Performativities and the 'New' Professional

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 174-198

  Bruni, Attila ^b   Gherardi, Silvia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b NONE

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EID: 85071121859     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203467091-16     Document Type: Chapter

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