Self-direction or social support? Nonprofit empowerment and the tacit employment contract of organizational communication studies

Communication Monographs

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 88-110

  Ashcraft, Karen Lee ^a   Kedrowicz, April ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

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EID: 0036339303     PISSN: 03637751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03637750216538     Document Type: Article

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