Buy one, get one free: Benefits of following the controllability principle for intrinsic motivation'

Studies in Managerial and Financial Accounting

Volumn 25, Issue , 2012, Pages 339-362

  Kunz, Jennifer ^a   Linder, Stefan ^b  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b ESSEC BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

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EID: 84897586193     PISSN: 14793512     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1108/S1479-3512(2012)0000025016     Document Type: Article

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