Templates for financial control? Management and employees under the private equity business model

Human Resource Management Journal

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 144-159

  Clark, Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84876709160     PISSN: 09545395     EISSN: 17488583     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-8583.2012.00192.x     Document Type: Article

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