Your place or mine? organizational identification and comfort as mediators of relationships between the managerial control of workspace and employees' satisfaction and well-being

British Journal of Management

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 717-735

  Knight, Craig ^a   Haslam, S Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 77955612408     PISSN: 10453172     EISSN: 14678551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8551.2009.00683.x     Document Type: Article

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