Refining Lodahl and Kejner's Job Involvement Scale with a Convergent Evidence Approach: Applying Multiple Methods to Multiple Samples

Organizational Research Methods

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 91-111

  Reeve, Charlie L ^a   Smith, Carlla S ^b  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0345823450     PISSN: 10944281     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/109442810142001     Document Type: Article

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