Flexible labor and innovation performance: Evidence from longitudinal firm-level data

Industrial and Corporate Change

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 941-968

  Zhou, Haibo ^a   Dekker, Ronald ^b,c   Kleinknecht, Alfred ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEREGULATION; INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE; INNOVATION; LABOR MARKET;

EID: 79957861620     PISSN: 09606491     EISSN: 14643650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icc/dtr013     Document Type: Article

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