HRM practices, R&D expenditure and innovative investment: Evidence from the UKs 1990 Workplace Industrial Relations Survey (WIRS)

Industrial and Corporate Change

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 211-234

  Michie, Jonathan ^a   Sheehan, Maura ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0000501966     PISSN: 09606491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icc/8.2.211     Document Type: Article

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