Enriching the Spence and Robbins' typology of workaholism: Demographic, motivational and organizational correlates

Journal of Organizational Change Management

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 440-458

  Buelens, Marc ^a   Poelmans, Steven A Y ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b IESE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Type testing; Workaholism; Working practices

Indexed keywords

EID: 23744468271     PISSN: 09534814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09534810410554470     Document Type: Review

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