The Strategic Hrm Debate and the Resource-Based View of the Firm

Human Resource Management Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 59-75

  Boxall, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

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EID: 0002780445     PISSN: 09545395     EISSN: 17488583     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-8583.1996.tb00412.x     Document Type: Article

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