Growing pains: Managing the employment relationship in medium-sized enterprises

International Handbook of Entrepreneurship and HRM

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 224-241

  Marlow, Susan ^a   Thompson, Amanda ^a  

^a DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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