Work-life boundary management and the personal digital assistant

Human Relations

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 519-551

  Golden, Annis G ^a,b   Geisler, Cheryl ^c,d  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b ALBANY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d Department of Language Literature and Communication ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Borders; Boundaries; Communication; Discourse analysis; Mobile ICTs; PDA; Work and family; Work life

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947429239     PISSN: 00187267     EISSN: 1741282X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018726707076698     Document Type: Article

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