Self-help Books on Avoiding Time Shortage

Time & Society

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 213-230

  Larsson, Jörgen ^a   Sanne, Christer ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

life management; self help books; time management; time pressure; time use; work life balance

Indexed keywords

EID: 27644507315     PISSN: 0961463X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0961463X05055135     Document Type: Article

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