Time in Individual-Level Organizational Studies: What Is It, How Is It Used, and Why Isn't It Exploited More Often?

Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior

Volumn 2, Issue , 2015, Pages 237-260

  Shipp, Abbie J ^a   Cole, Michael S ^a  

^a TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

change; dynamic; longitudinal; temporal; time; timing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84963944530     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23270608     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-orgpsych-032414-111245     Document Type: Review

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