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Determinants of MIS employees' turnover intentions: a structural equation model
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Volume 35 ,  Issue 2  (February 1992) table of contents
Pages: 34 - 49  
Year of Publication: 1992
ISSN:0001-0782
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Magid Igbaria  Drexel Univ., Philadelphia, PA
Jeffrey H. Greenhaus  Drexel Univ., Philadelphia, PA
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ACM  New York, NY, USA
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