The transformation of meritocracy

Management of Success: Singapore Revisited

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 272-287

  Tan, Kenneth Paul ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

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