Contractors and their Psychological Contracts

British Journal of Management

Volumn 9, Issue 3 SPEC. ISS., 1998, Pages 253-274

  Millward, L J ^a   Brewerton, P M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

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