Private Eyes Are Watching You: Reactions to Location Sensing Technologies

Journal of Business and Psychology

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 299-309

  McNall, Laurel A ^a   Stanton, Jeffrey M ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electronic performance monitoring; Fairness; Location sensing technologies; Organizational justice; Privacy invasion

Indexed keywords

EID: 79961209967     PISSN: 08893268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10869-010-9189-y     Document Type: Article

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