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Good work, poor work? We need to go far beyond capitalism to answer this question

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 January 2020

Daniela M. Andrei*
Affiliation:
Curtin University
Anja Van den Broeck
Affiliation:
KU Leuven
Sharon K. Parker
Affiliation:
Curtin University
*
*Corresponding author. Email: [email protected]

Abstract

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© Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2020

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Footnotes

This research was funded by an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship award to the third author, FL160100033. The second author would like to acknowledge grant support from KU Leuven (VKH-C9278-StG/14/035).

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