Personal projects and organizational lives

Personal Project Pursuit: Goals, Action, and Human Flourishing

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 221-246

  Grant, Adam M ^a   Little, Brian R ^b   Phillips, Susan D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 85076661100     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781315089928-8     Document Type: Chapter

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