Response to Haar's comment - and the beat goes on: Corporate downsizing in the twenty-first century

Human Resource Management

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 261-267

  Vanderheiden, Paul A ^a   De Meuse, Kenneth P ^a   Bergmann, Thomas J ^a  

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EID: 0039131031     PISSN: 00904848     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-050X(199923)38:3<261::AID-HRM8>3.0.CO;2-R     Document Type: Article

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