Managing the impact of employee turnover on performance: The role of process conformance

Organization Science

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 56-68

  Ton, Zeynep ^a   Huckman, Robert S ^a  

^a HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Employee turnover; Knowledge exploitation; Process management; Retail operations

Indexed keywords

EID: 61349095467     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1070.0294     Document Type: Article

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