Sustainable human resource strategy: The sustainable and unsustainable dilemmas of retrenchment

International Journal of Social Economics

Volumn 30, Issue 7-8, 2003, Pages 906-923

  Mariappanadar, Sugumar ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Human resource strategies; Social economics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0242329724     PISSN: 03068293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03068290310483779     Document Type: Review

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