Too Close to Quit: The Role of Project Completion in Maintaining Commitment1
- 1 November 1998
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Applied Social Psychology
- Vol. 28 (22) , 2025-2048
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1559-1816.1998.tb01359.x
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