Beach time, bridge time, and billable hours: The temporal structure of technical contracting

Administrative Science Quarterly

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2004, Pages

  Evans, James A ^a   Kunda, Gideon ^b,d   Barley, Stephen R ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Stanford University   (United States)

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