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Selection Ratio and Employee Retention as Antecedents of Competitive Advantage

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2015

James W. Beck*
Affiliation:
University of Minnesota
Philip T. Walmsley
Affiliation:
University of Minnesota
*
E-mail: beckx257@umn.edu, Address: Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, 75 East River Road, Minneapolis, MN 55455-0344

Abstract

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Copyright
Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2012 

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Footnotes

Both authors contributed equally to this manuscript.

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