How and when should companies retain their human capital? Contracts, incentives and human resource implications

Industrial and Corporate Change

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-24

  Gambardella, Alfonso ^a   Giarratana, Marco S ^b   Panico, Claudio ^a  

^a BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; HUMAN CAPITAL; HUMAN RESOURCE; INCENTIVE; INDUSTRIAL COMPETITION; LABOR MARKET; MODELING; OPTIMIZATION; SKILLED LABOR;

EID: 77952646410     PISSN: 09606491     EISSN: 14643650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icc/dtp039     Document Type: Article

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