Climbing the Higher Mountain: The Challenges of Multilevel, Multisource, and Longitudinal Research Designs

Management and Organization Review

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 447-460

  Kulik, Carol T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Longitudinal; Multilevel; Multisource; Publishing; Research ethics

Indexed keywords

EID: 80255124852     PISSN: 17408776     EISSN: 17408784     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1740-8784.2011.00226.x     Document Type: Article

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