Listening to workers: The overtime versus hiring dilemma

Journal of Business Research

Volumn 66, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1771-1779

  Singer, Marcos ^a   Obach, Juan José ^a  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Headcount; Information asymmetry; Overtime hours

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878651475     PISSN: 01482963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2013.01.009     Document Type: Article

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