Integrating professional work and life: Conditions, outcomes and resources

Creating Balance?: International Perspectives on the Work-Life Integration of Professionals

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 3-26

  Reindl, Cornelia U ^a   Kaiser, Stephan ^b   Stolz, Martin L ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF EICHSTÄTT INGOLSTADT   (Germany)

^b BUNDESWEHR UNIVERSITY MUNICH   (Germany)

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EID: 84858400923     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-16199-5_1     Document Type: Chapter

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