Organizational Members' Communication and Temporal Experience: Scale Development and Validation

Communication Research

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 135-172

  Ballard, Dawna I ^a   Seibold, David R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronemics; Groups; Organizations; Scale; Temporality; Time

Indexed keywords

EID: 1642272003     PISSN: 00936502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0093650203261504     Document Type: Review

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