Externalization of employees: Thinking about going somewhere else

International Journal of Human Resource Management

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 373-388

  Bergström, Ola ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Calculative agents; Employability; Employment relations; Externalization; Marketization

Indexed keywords

EID: 0344663818     PISSN: 09585192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09585190122959     Document Type: Article

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