Externalizing organizational activities: Where and how US establishments use employment intermediaries

Socio-Economic Review

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 389-416

  Kalleberg, Arne L ^a   Marsden, Peter V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Business administration and business economics; Industrial organization; Labour and demographic economics

Indexed keywords

EID: 24344509907     PISSN: 14751461     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/SER/mwi017     Document Type: Article

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