Time in the New Economy: The Impact of the Interaction of Individual and Structural Temporalities on Job Satisfaction

Journal of Management Studies

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 403-428

  Agypt, Brett ^a   Rubin, Beth A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Job satisfaction; Layered task time; Polychronicity; Temporal structures; Time

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856739710     PISSN: 00222380     EISSN: 14676486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6486.2011.01021.x     Document Type: Article

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