Moving in, moving on: Liminality practices in project-based work

Employee Relations

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 182-197

  Borg, Elisabeth ^a   Söderlund, Jonas ^b  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b BI NORWEGIAN BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Employee attitudes; Employee involvement; Employee relations; Flexible labour; Labour mobility; Qualitative methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892386567     PISSN: 01425455     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/ER-11-2012-0081     Document Type: Article

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