The emergence and prevalence of employee management rhetorics: The effects of long waves, labor unions, and turnover, 1875 to 1992

Academy of Management Journal

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 491-533

  Abrahamson, Eric ^a  

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DOI: 10.2307/257051     Document Type: Article

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