Managing the aging workforce:. Status quo and implications for the advancement of theory and practice

European Management Journal

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-10

  Streb, Christoph K ^a   Voelpel, Sven C ^a   Leibold, Marius ^b  

^a JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Aging workforce; Business management; Demographic change; Empirical research

Indexed keywords

EID: 38749096997     PISSN: 02632373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.emj.2007.08.004     Document Type: Article

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