Social Exchange at Work and Emotional Exhaustion: The Role of Personality

Journal of Applied Social Psychology

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2165-2199

  Petrou, Paraskevas ^a,d   Kouvonen, Anne ^b   Karanika Murray, Maria ^c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b SWPS UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES   (Poland)

^c NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 80053081166     PISSN: 00219029     EISSN: 15591816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2011.00812.x     Document Type: Article

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