Impetus for Action: A Cultural Analysis of Justice and Organizational Citizenship Behavior in Chinese Society

1997/09/01 by Jiing-Lih Farh, Jiing‐Lih Farh, P. Christopher Earley +2 · 1,241 citations
Business, Management and Accounting · Health Professions · Psychology · #Action (physics) #China #Chinese society #Citizenship #Community Health and Development #Criminology #Cultural Differences and Values #Economic Justice #Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior #Law #Organizational behavior #Organizational citizenship behavior #Organizational commitment #Organizational justice #Political science #Psychology #Public relations #Social psychology #Sociology

paper · doi:10.2307/2393733

published in Administrative Science Quarterly 42(3), 421 (SAGE Publishing)

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Abstract

Jiing-Lih Farh, P. Christopher Earley, Shu-Chi Lin, Impetus for Action: A Cultural Analysis of Justice and Organizational Citizenship Behavior in Chinese Society, Administrative Science Quarterly, Vol. 42, No. 3 (Sep., 1997), pp. 421-444

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