Changing the balance? Taylorism, TQM and work organisation

New Technology, Work and Employment

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 13-24

  Jones, Oswald ^a  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0002247768     PISSN: 02681072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-005X.00019     Document Type: Article

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