Workplace impact of social networking

Property Management

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 138-148

  Bennett, James ^a   Owers, Mark ^b   Pitt, Michael ^b   Tucker, Matthew ^b  

^a Drivers Jonas Deloitte   (United Kingdom)

^b LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Culture; Productivity rate; Social networks; United Kingdom; Workplace

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954223014     PISSN: 02637472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02637471011051282     Document Type: Review

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