Commitment, flexibility and the choice of employment contracts

Human Relations

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 741-761

  Kulkarni, Subodh P ^a   Ramamoorthy, Nagarajan ^b  

^a HOWARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON VICTORIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral uncertainty; Competitive uncertainty; Employment contract; Firm specificity; Human capital; Usage specificity; Value creation

Indexed keywords

EID: 25444506849     PISSN: 00187267     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018726705057170     Document Type: Article

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