The Strength of Difference

Being different is widely recognised as a social handicap and a source of stigmatisation. This book shows, through sixty interviews of atypical leaders, that difference can also be a strength. It tells the stories of people who were able to turn their destinies around.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Norbert Alter is a Professor of Sociology at Paris Dauphine University, France. He specialises in the sociology of organisations and favours an empirically grounded understanding of the world of business and the social bonds that develop there.

Zusammenfassung

Being different is widely recognised as a social handicap and a source of stigmatisation. This book shows, through sixty interviews of atypical leaders, that difference can also be a strength. It tells the stories of people who were able to turn their destinies around.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Norbert Alter, Norbert (Paris Dauphine University Alter
• Verlag: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 30.11.2019
• EAN: 9781787145825
• ISBN: 978-1-78714-582-5
• Seiten: 186
• Abmessung: 157 mm x 235 mm x 15 mm
• Gewicht: 429 g
• Serien: International Perspectives on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion; International Perspectives on; International Perspectives on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Psychologie > Angewandte Psychologie; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Wirtschaft > Sonstiges