Employee-management techniques: Transient fads or trending fashions?

Administrative Science Quarterly

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 719-744

  Abrahamson, Eric ^a   Eisenman, Micki ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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EID: 62549152620     PISSN: 00018392     EISSN: 19303815     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2189/asqu.53.4.719     Document Type: Review

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