Skills, Incentives, and Control: An integration of agency and transaction cost approaches

Group and Organization Management

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 53-86

  Kowtha, N Rao ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

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EID: 2342581507     PISSN: 10596011     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1059601197221006     Document Type: Article

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