Communication-related sense-making and adjustment during job transfers

Management Communication Quarterly

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 155-182

  Jablin, Fredric M ^a   Kramer, Michael W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

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EID: 33750063120     PISSN: 08933189     EISSN: 15526798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0893318998122001     Document Type: Article

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