Organizational behavior: Linking individuals and groups to organizational contexts

Annual Review of Psychology

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 1993, Pages 195-229

  Mowday, Richard T ^a   Sutton, Robert I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Macro OB; Micro OB; Organizational psychology

Indexed keywords

EID: 12044252155     PISSN: 00664308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ps.44.020193.001211     Document Type: Article

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