Employee relations and the likelihood of occurrence of corporate financial distress

Journal of Business Finance and Accounting

Volumn 32, Issue 5-6, 2005, Pages 1083-1105

  Kane, Gregory D ^a   Velury, Uma ^a   Ruf, Bernadette M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Employee concessions; Employee relations; Financial distress

Indexed keywords

EID: 27844603374     PISSN: 0306686X     EISSN: 14685957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0306-686X.2005.00623.x     Document Type: Review

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