Explaining Team-Based Pay: A Contingency Perspective Based on the Organizational Life Cycle, Team Design, and Organizational Learning Literatures

Human Resource Management Review

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 249-269

  Balkin, David B ^a   Montemayor, Edilberto F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0041781556     PISSN: 10534822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1053-4822(00)00028-0     Document Type: Article

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