The employee-organization relationship: Where do we go from here?

Human Resource Management Review

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 166-179

  Coyle Shapiro, Jacqueline A M ^a   Shore, Lynn M ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Employee organization relationship; Employment relationship; Reciprocity; Social exchange

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250026104     PISSN: 10534822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrmr.2007.03.008     Document Type: Article

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