Multicommunicating: A practice whose time has come?

Academy of Management Review

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 391-403

  Reinsch Jr , N Lamar ^a   Turner, Jeanine Warisse ^a   Tinsley, Catherine H ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 42249115219     PISSN: 03637425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5465/AMR.2008.31193450     Document Type: Article

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