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3 - Understanding the Excessive Availability for Work in the Confucian Asia: Interactions between Sociocultural Forces and Personal Drives

from Part I - Situating Presenteeism on the Global Stage

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 August 2018

By
Luo Lu  and
Shu-Fang Kao
Edited by
Cary L. Cooper  and
Luo Lu
Cary L. Cooper
Affiliation:
University of Manchester
Luo Lu
Affiliation:
National Taiwan University
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Presenteeism at Work , pp. 69 - 94
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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