Who's watching us at work? Toward a structural-perceptual model of electronic monitoring and surveillance in organizations

Communication Theory

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 281-303

  D'urso, Scott C ^a  

^a MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; MONITORING;

EID: 33746898984     PISSN: 10503293     EISSN: 14682885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2885.2006.00271.x     Document Type: Article

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