Profiling cyber-slackers in the workplace: Demographic, cultural, and workplace factors

Journal of Internet Commerce

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 75-89

  Ugrin, Joseph C ^a   Pearson, J Michael ^a,b   Odom, Marcus D ^a,b  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Information Systems ^*

Author keywords

Cyber slacking; Internet abuse; Non work related computing

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548858176     PISSN: 15332861     EISSN: 1533287X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J179v06n03_04     Document Type: Article

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