The downside of downsizing

Human Relations

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 11-50

  Kets De Vries, Manfred F R ^a,b   Balazs, Katharina ^a  

^a INSEAD   (France)

^b Europ Inst of Bus Administration   (France)

Author keywords

Clinical approach; Coping patterns; Downsizing; Psychological contract

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002923208     PISSN: 00187267     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/001872679705000102     Document Type: Article

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