Construct Clean-Up in Proactivity Research: A Meta-Analysis on the Nomological Net of Work-Related Proactivity Concepts and their Incremental Validities

Applied Psychology

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 44-96

  Tornau, Katharina ^a   Frese, Michael ^b,c  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

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EID: 84868545411     PISSN: 0269994X     EISSN: 14640597     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-0597.2012.00514.x     Document Type: Article

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