Downsizing: Is it always lean and mean?

Personnel Review

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 296-311

  Kinnie, Nicholas ^a   Hutchinson, Sue ^a   Purcell, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0032370745     PISSN: 00483486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00483489810213883     Document Type: Article

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