The search for flexibility: Skills and workplace innovation in the German pump industry

British Journal of Industrial Relations

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 469-487

  Finegold, David ^a   Wagner, Karin ^a  

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EID: 0032368985     PISSN: 00071080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8543.00103     Document Type: Article

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