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Putting Self-Interest Out of Business? Contributions and Unanswered Questions From Use-Inspired Research on Prosocial Motivation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2015

Adam M. Grant
Adam M. Grant*
Affiliation:
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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E-mail: agrant@unc.edu, Address: Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Campus Box 3490, McColl Building, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3490
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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , March 2009 , pp. 94 - 98
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Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2009 

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Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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