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Peter Bamberger, Avi Fiegenbaum, The Role of Strategic Reference Points in Explaining the Nature and Consequences of Human Resource Strategy, The Academy of Management Review, Vol. 21, No. 4 (Oct., 1996), pp. 926-958
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