Product Market Competition and Human Resource Practices in the Retail Food Sector
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عنوان ژورنال: Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0019-8676,1468-232X
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-232x.2009.00561.x