Managerial husbandry and the dynamics of ongoing hierarchies

European Economic Review

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 1483-1499

  Demougin, Dominique ^a   Siow, Aloysius ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fast track jobs; Firm growth; Hiring cost; Inter and intra firm mobility; On the job training; Up or out rules

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040009016     PISSN: 00142921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0014-2921(95)00041-0     Document Type: Article

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