The resilience of a company-level system of industrial relations: Union responses to teamwork in Renault's Spanish subsidiary

European Journal of Industrial Relations

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 277-299

  Ortiz, Luis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

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EID: 0038793894     PISSN: 09596801     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/095968010283004     Document Type: Article

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