If you can use them: Flexibility policies, organizational commitment, and perceived performance

Industrial Relations

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 145-167

  Eaton, Susan C ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE; INDUSTRIAL REGULATION; ORGANIZATIONAL FRAMEWORK; SOCIAL POLICY;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; EMPLOYEE; POLICY;

EID: 0038418047     PISSN: 00198676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-232X.00285     Document Type: Article

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