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Organisational identification-based model of job performance in the IT sector: mediating role of work engagement and organisational citizenship behaviour

By: Katarzyna Żak  
Open Access
|Oct 2025

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/emj-2025-0021 | Journal eISSN: 2543-912X | Journal ISSN: 2543-6597
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