The future starts today, not tomorrow: How future focus promotes organizational citizenship behaviors

Human Relations

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 829-856

  Strobel, Maria ^a   Tumasjan, Andranik ^a   Spörrle, Matthias ^b   Welpe, Isabell M ^a  

^a TUM SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (Germany)

^b University of Applied Management (UAM)   (Germany)

Author keywords

future focus; future orientation; organizational citizenship behavior; regulatory focus; temporal focus

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878611307     PISSN: 00187267     EISSN: 1741282X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018726712470709     Document Type: Article

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