Downsizing – intellectual capital performance anorexia or enhancement?

The Learning Organization

Volumn 11, Issue , 2004, Pages 368-379

  Mitchell Williams, S ^a  

^a SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Downsizing; Human resourcing; Intellectual capital; United States of America

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993079001     PISSN: 09696474     EISSN: 1758905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09696470410538260     Document Type: Article

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