Modes of labor flexibility at firm level: Are there any implications for performance and innovation? Evidence for the Swiss economy

Industrial and Corporate Change

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 993-1016

  Arvanitis, Spyros ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INNOVATION; LABOR MARKET; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 31144445956     PISSN: 09606491     EISSN: 14643650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icc/dth087     Document Type: Article

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