Variations on a lean theme: Work restructuring in retail distribution

New Technology, Work and Employment

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 59-74

  Wright, Christopher ^a   Lund, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM; ORGANIZATIONAL FRAMEWORK; RETAILING;

EID: 33644780800     PISSN: 02681072     EISSN: 1468005X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-005X.2006.00163.x     Document Type: Article

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